Benefits and barriers of knowledge management in software development projects

The purpose of this article is to identify the basics barriers and benefits of knowledge management in this subgroup of IT projects. In the first part of the article the specificity of software development projects will be discussed. Next, the empirical research process as well as obtained results are demonstrated. The results presented in the paper are regarded as pilot research and constitute the foundations for further research on these issues.

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