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Agile Knowledge Management in Practice

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Advances in Learning Software Organizations (LSO 2004)

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This paper describes some experiences with the implementation of knowledge management techniques in an agile development department. After placing the discussion in the context of the department tasks and resultant organisation, the experiences in managing the various, software engineering relevant, knowledge types are reviewed. Before drawing conclusions, KM relevant experiences using ”agile-compatible” tools are discussed.

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  1. Starscions, Im Ahorn 22, 8125, Zollikerberg, Switzerland

    Hans Dermot Doran

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Canada

    Grigori Melnik

  2. Knowledge Management Department, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence DFKI GmbH, Germany

    Harald Holz

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Doran, H.D. (2004). Agile Knowledge Management in Practice. In: Melnik, G., Holz, H. (eds) Advances in Learning Software Organizations. LSO 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3096. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25983-1_14

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