Successful Architectural Knowledge Sharing: Beware of Emotions

Authors:
Eltjo R. Poort;Agung Pramono;Michiel Perdeck;Viktor Clerc;Hans Vliet
Affiliations:
Logica, P.O. Box 159, 1180 AD Amstelveen, The Netherlands;VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;Logica, P.O. Box 159, 1180 AD Amstelveen, The Netherlands;VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Venue:
QoSA '09 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures: Architectures for Adaptive Software Systems
Year:
2009

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Abstract

This paper presents the analysis and key findings of a survey on architectural knowledge sharing. The responses of 97 architects working in the Dutch IT Industry were analyzed by correlating practices and challenges with project size and success. Impact mechanisms between project size, project success, and architectural knowledge sharing practices and challenges were deduced based on reasoning, experience and literature. We find that architects run into numerous and diverse challenges sharing architectural knowledge, but that the only challenges that have a significant impact are the emotional challenges related to interpersonal relationships. Thus, architects should be careful when dealing with emotions in knowledge sharing.