Knowledge sharing for agile distributed teams: A case study of Mauritius

Knowledge is considered as an important factor during software development process as the latter is a people-based activity where developers' and other stakeholders' knowledge impact on the development. Different ways and techniques have been used to share knowledge in agile software development teams. Additionally rigorous, structured and formalized processes have been used to tackle the difficult task of transferring and sharing knowledge in a software teams. Nowadays, with large amount of information being processed within software companies, agile distributed software teams also need to take into consideration the aspects of Big Data while sharing knowledge within agile teams. A survey has been carried out in software development companies in Mauritius to investigate on knowledge sharing methods adopted by agile software development teams. Main findings have been discussed and recommendations have been made.

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