A Case Study of Knowledge Management Usage in Agile Software Projects

Agile Methodologies promote a group of principles which differ from Traditional Methods. In this way, one concrete difference is the manner of how the knowledge is managed during a software development process. Most proposals to knowledge management have been generated for Traditional Methods but have failed in Agile Projects because they focus on explicit Knowledge Management. This paper aims to present a case study with a detailed contributions taken from Lessons Learned for some issues related to Knowledge Management in a distributed project that make use of Agile Methodologies.

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