Title
Facilitating experience reuse among software project managers
Abstract
Organizations have lost billions of dollars due to poor software project implementations. In an effort to enable software project managers to repeat prior successes and avoid previous mistakes, this research seeks to improve the reuse of a specific type of knowledge among software project managers, experiences in the form of narratives. To meet this goal, we identify a set of design principles for facilitating experience reuse based on the knowledge management literature. Guided by these principles we develop a model called Experience Exchange for facilitating the reuse of experiences in the form of narratives. We also provide a proof-of-concept instantiation of a critical component of the Experience Exchange model, the Experience Exchange Library. We evaluate the Experience Exchange model theoretically and empirically. We conduct a theoretical evaluation by ensuring that our model complies with the design principles identified from the literature. We also perform an experiment, using the developed instantiation of the Experience Exchange Library, to evaluate if technology can serve as a medium for transferring experiences across software projects.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1016/j.ins.2007.11.020
Inf. Sci.
Keywords
Field
DocType
knowledge management,proof of concept,narratives,software project management
Design elements and principles,Engineering management,Reuse,Knowledge management,Narrative,Software project management,Implementation,Software,Artificial intelligence,Design science research,Machine learning,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
178
7
0020-0255
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
20
0.74
27
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stacie Petter1159048.95
Vijay K. Vaishnavi2746108.58