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This paper presents the analysis and key findings of a survey on architectural knowledge sharing. The responses of 97 architects working in the Dutch IT Industry were analyzed by correlating practices and challenges with project size and success. Impact mechanisms between project size, project success, and architectural knowledge sharing practices and challenges were deduced based on reasoning, experience and literature. We find that architects run into numerous and diverse challenges sharing architectural knowledge, but that the only challenges that have a significant impact are the emotional challenges related to interpersonal relationships. Thus, architects should be careful when dealing with emotions in knowledge sharing.
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Poort, E.R., Pramono, A., Perdeck, M., Clerc, V., van Vliet, H. (2009). Successful Architectural Knowledge Sharing: Beware of Emotions. In: Mirandola, R., Gorton, I., Hofmeister, C. (eds) Architectures for Adaptive Software Systems. QoSA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5581. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02351-4_9
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