Making sense of project management-a case of knowledge management in software development

Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 565-575

  Kjærgaard, Annemette ^a   Kautz, Karl ^a   Nielsen, Peter Axel ^a  

^a Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Explicit knowledge; Knowledge management; Project management; Sensemaking; Software development; Tacit knowledge

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE PROCESS; EXPLICIT KNOWLEDGE; PROJECT MANAGERS; SENSEMAKING; SOFTWARE COMPANY; SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT; TACIT KNOWLEDGE; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; THROUGH THE LENS;

INDUSTRY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

MANAGEMENT SCIENCE;

EID: 84869432276     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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