Knowledge Management in Distributed Agile Projects

Knowledge management (KM) is essential for success in Global Software Development (GSD) or Distributed Software Development (DSD) or Global Software Engineering (GSE). Software organizations are managing knowledge in innovative ways to increase productivity. One of the major objectives of KM is to improve productivity through effective knowledge sharing and transfer. Therefore, to maintain effective knowledge sharing in distributed agile projects, practitioners’ need to adopt different types of knowledge sharing techniques and strategies. Distributed projects introduce new challenges to KM. So, practices that are used in agile teams became difficult to put into action in distributed development. Though, informal communication is the key enabler for knowledge sharing. But when agile project is distributed, informal communication and knowledge sharing is challenged by low communication bandwidth between distributed team members as well as social and cultural distance. In the work presented in this thesis, we have made an overview of empirical studies of knowledge management in distributed agile projects. Based on the main theme of this study, we have categorized and reported our findings on major concepts that need empirical investigation. We have classified the main research theme in this thesis within two sub