Knowledge management governance in software development process with GI-Tropos

Abstract

Governing Knowledge Management in a Requirements-Driven Software Processes such as (GI-) Tropos or even waterfall, V, UP-based ones allows IT managers to propose rules for efficient handling of information and resources to cope with stakeholders' requirements. On the one hand, Knowledge Management Governance in software engineering has to ensure that software organization business processes determine organizational knowledge access conditions, quality maintenance, decision making processes and means of resolving knowledge management obstacles of the organization. On the other hand, requirements-driven software methods are development processes using high-level social-oriented models to drive the software life cycle both in terms of project management and deductive iterative engineering techniques. Typically, such methods are well-suited for the straightforward inclusion and adaptation of knowledge management governance principles into the software development life cycle. To consolidate both perspectives, this paper proposes a generic framework allowing to drive Knowledge Management in the GI-Tropos software processes.