Knowledge Management and Creativity in Software Engineering - The Foundations of Agility

Broderick Crawford, Claudio León de la Barra, Ricardo Soto, Sanjay Misra, Eric Monfroy

2013

Abstract

Software development is a knowledge intensive activity and its success depends on knowledge and creativity of the developers. In the last years the traditional perspective on software development is changing and agile methods have received considerable attention. Among other attributes, the agilists claim that fostering knowledge sharing and creativity is one of the keys to response to common problems and challenges of software development today. The development of new software products requires the generation of novel and useful ideas. The purpose of this paper is to provide an understanding of knowledge management and creativity in relation with new software engineering trends. The implications of these findings are considered, and some possible directions for future research are suggested.

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Crawford B., León de la Barra C., Soto R., Misra S. and Monfroy E. (2013). Knowledge Management and Creativity in Software Engineering - The Foundations of Agility . In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8565-60-0, pages 265-272. DOI: 10.5220/0004447802650272


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@conference{iceis13,
author={Broderick Crawford and Claudio León de la Barra and Ricardo Soto and Sanjay Misra and Eric Monfroy},
title={Knowledge Management and Creativity in Software Engineering - The Foundations of Agility},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2013},
pages={265-272},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004447802650272},
isbn={978-989-8565-60-0},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - Knowledge Management and Creativity in Software Engineering - The Foundations of Agility
SN - 978-989-8565-60-0
AU - Crawford B.
AU - León de la Barra C.
AU - Soto R.
AU - Misra S.
AU - Monfroy E.
PY - 2013
SP - 265
EP - 272
DO - 10.5220/0004447802650272