Title :
The knowledge-gap reduction in software engineering
Author :
Dakhli, Saber ; Ben Chouikha, Mouna
Author_Institution :
Paris-Dauphine Univ., Paris
Abstract :
Many papers proposed in the software engineering and information systems literature are dedicated to analysis of software projects missing their schedules, exceeding their budgets, delivering software products with poor quality and in some cases even wrong functionality. The expression ldquosoftware crisisldquo has been coined since the late 60´s to illustrate this phenomenon. Various solutions has been proposed by academics and practitioners in order to deal with the software crisis, counter these trends and improve productivity and software quality. Such solutions recommend software process improvement as the best way to build software products needed by modern organizations. Among the well-known solutions, many are based either on software development tools or on software development approaches, methods, processes, and notations. Nevertheless, the scope of these solutions seems to be limited and the improvements they provide are often not significant. We think that since software artifacts are accumulation of knowledge owned by organizational stakeholders, the software crisis is due to a knowledge gap resulting from the discrepancy between the knowledge integrated in software systems and the knowledge owned by organizational actors. In particular, integrating knowledge management in software development process permits reducing the knowledge gap through building software products which reflect at least partly the organization´s know-how. In this paper, we propose a framework which provides a definition of knowledge based on information systems architecture and describes a knowledge-oriented software development process to help organizations in reducing the software crisis impacts.
Keywords :
knowledge management; project management; software development management; software process improvement; knowledge management; knowledge-gap reduction; software crisis; software development tools; software engineering; software process improvement; software products; software projects; Counting circuits; Information analysis; Information systems; Knowledge management; Productivity; Programming; Scheduling; Software engineering; Software quality; Software systems; business entity; business function; business process; information; knowledge; organizational actor; software process;
Conference_Titel :
Research Challenges in Information Science, 2009. RCIS 2009. Third International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Fez
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2864-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2865-6
DOI :
10.1109/RCIS.2009.5089292