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Learning from experience is the key to successes for all that develop software. Both the successes and the failures in software projects can help us to improve. Here we discuss two versions of Post Mortem Analysis (PMA) as methods for harvesting experience from completed software projects, which can be part of a larger knowledge management program. The two methods are tailored for use in small and medium size companies and are conceptually easy to apply. In addition, they require few resources compared to other methods in the field. We think that the methods are useful for companies when they need to document their knowledge, find improvement actions and as a start of systematic knowledge harvesting.
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Stålhane, T., Dingsøyr, T., Hanssen, G.K., Moe, N.B. (2003). Post Mortem – An Assessment of Two Approaches. In: Conradi, R., Wang, A.I. (eds) Empirical Methods and Studies in Software Engineering. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2765. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45143-3_8
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