Organizational Learning in Dynamic Domains

  • Authors:
  • Scott Henninger

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • LSO '01 Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Advances in Learning Software Organizations
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Enabling organizational learning involves more than repositories and search engines. At its core, it involves the design of work practices that balance the desire for innovation with knowledge of past experiences and best practices. This tension is particularly acute in the software industry, which involves the development of a highly variable product that dictates the need for continuous process adjustments.This paper explores the issues of managing knowledge in dynamic domains requiring significant levels of improvisation within each repetition of the process. The challenge is not one of capturing and finding complete solutions to problems, but the more difficult task of finding and integrating partial solutions that can serve as the baseline for continuous improvement, and hence, organizational learning. Techniques will be explored that couple process and workflow management with knowledge management to capture and build an experiential body of knowledge for software development activities.