• DocumentCode
    750192
  • Title

    Postmortem: never leave a project without it

  • Author

    Birk, Andreas ; Dingsoyr, Torgeir ; Stålhane, Tor

  • Volume
    19
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    2002
  • Firstpage
    43
  • Lastpage
    45
  • Abstract
    Postmortem analysis (PMA) is a practical method for initiating knowledge management by capturing experience and improvement suggestions from completed projects. It requires little effort and quickly provides initial results, making it suitable even for small- and medium-size projects and companies. The authors describe their experiences with applying PMA techniques for collecting and analyzing experience in software organizations
  • Keywords
    project management; software development management; completed projects; experience capture; improvement suggestions; knowledge management; postmortem analysis; small companies; small-sized projects; software organizations; Costs; Engineering management; Informatics; Knowledge engineering; Knowledge management; Packaging; Project management; Satellites; Software quality; Telecommunications;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Software, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0740-7459
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MS.2002.1003452
  • Filename
    1003452