A new framework designed for knowledge management in distributed software development

Abstract

The software development with distributed teams becomes a critical popular nowadays. Not only for the efficiency and effectiveness the distributed teams provide, but also the distributed teams can supply whole-day works with lower costs. Software development is a kind of knowledge-driven industry which depends on the expertise of employees. Although many scholars have long investigated knowledge management as well as distributed software development, the combination that knowledge management in distributed software development is not a enough explored topic in the past decade’s years. In this paper, a review of relevant extant literature on knowledge management in distributed software development is provided. The relationship between two objects and the factors on knowledge sharing are summarized. By analysis of the characteristics and features of knowledge management, the social media-based framework of knowledge management for distributed software development is proposed.