A Knowledge Management Lifecycle for Experience Packages on Software Engineering Technologies

Software engineering can benefit very much from customised knowledge management solutions. These should rely on reusable experience that is modelled explicitly and stored in central repositories. Few approaches exist yet that provide such knowledge management support to software engineering. Those that support it cover usually only part of the knowledge management lifecycle of the reusable artefacts. This paper suggests a knowledge management lifecycle for experience about software engineering technologies and their application contexts. It primarily aims at supporting the planning of software projects and improvement programmes. The lifecycle model is substantiated by a tool implementation and evidence from an industrial trial application.