The knowledge products within software industry organizations: a new perspective on software artifacts / Os produtos de conhecimento dentro das organizações do setor de software: uma nova perspectiva sobre artefatos de software

Authors

  • Gisele Caroline Urbano Lourenço Brazilian Journals Publicações de Periódicos, São José dos Pinhais, Paraná
  • Rejane Sartori
  • Cláudia Herrero Martins Menegassi
  • Mariana Oliveira
  • Nelson Tenório

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.34117/bjdv5n6-088

Keywords:

Knowledge management, Software Artifacts, Information Technology.

Abstract

The Knowledge Management (KM) has become essential for organizations looking to store, encode, retrieve and disseminate knowledge in the environment in which they operate. In the software industry, KM presents itself as a form of management with relevant contribution potential, since this industry produces information on a constant basis. In this way, this information can be consolidated into software artifacts. Such artifacts represent knowledge of a particular software project, as well as a knowledge product. That is because a knowledge product also represents some kind of codified and stored knowledge. Thus, this work aims to analyze software artifacts from the perspective of knowledge products. To this end, a questionnaire was conducted and interviews with ten experienced project managers from the software industry. As a result, it was observed that the software artifacts become knowledge products because they allow reuse and register intellectual capital creating new knowledge and encouraging innovation in the software industry organizations.

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2019-04-17

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Lourenço, G. C. U., Sartori, R., Menegassi, C. H. M., Oliveira, M., & Tenório, N. (2019). The knowledge products within software industry organizations: a new perspective on software artifacts / Os produtos de conhecimento dentro das organizações do setor de software: uma nova perspectiva sobre artefatos de software. Brazilian Journal of Development, 5(6), 5564–5581. https://doi.org/10.34117/bjdv5n6-088

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