Knowledge management technology
IBM Systems Journal
A knowledge management practice investigation in Romanian software development organizations
WSEAS Transactions on Computers
Improving organizational efficiency and effectiveness in a Romanian higher education institution
WSEAS Transactions on Computers
WSEAS Transactions on Systems and Control
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In today's fast growing IT industry many companies are constantly experiencing shortages of software developers, a key resource in the computer-based world that we live in. This frustrating reality comes from the fact that training a competitive software developer is a long process that may take years which is incompatible with the much faster ups and downs of the software industry. As a consequence many managers from software development and consulting companies are attempting to accelerate the process of training software developers. The current article presents an example of knowledge sharing practice in which young graduates have been trained as ABAP programmers with the help of an accelerated knowledge sharing method that has enabled them to reach in only 4-6 months a level of expertise that has made them acceptable for top system integrators. Traditionally, for reaching such a level there would have been necessary almost 2 years of training on the job. The article focuses on the architecture of the knowledge sharing system and the roles of the persons involved. A simplified mathematical model of the success rate is also described. As a conclusion the article demonstrates that the time needed to acquire expertise as an ABAP programmer can be reduced from 2 years to 4-6 months with the help of knowledge sharing methods.