How to Enhance the Creativity of Software Developers: A Systematic Literature Review

Success during software development depends on the creativity of software engineers. Knowledge plays a very important role in enhancing the creativity of software developers. Knowledge is available in different forms like repository knowledge (experiences of past projects) and community knowledge (gained through communication among software engineers). To help software engineers be more creative and successful, a systematic literature review was undertaken to find how knowledge influences creativity. The systematic literature review reports the various knowledge sources and how these can be accessed by developers to be more creative, and the methods used to access the knowledge sources.

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