Enabling Involving Global Cooperative Software Design with Layered Knowledge Management Platform

It is impossible for software designing without rigorous and systematic knowledge management especially in global environment. In order to fasten the building of large business system, the design of the system and modules will be implemented in a involving mode. However, the distributed teams must overcome the possible requirement conflicts coming from the different business units or different releases. In this paper, the authors strongly argue that a layered knowledge management platform should be adopted in involving global cooperative software design.