Advances in Learning Software Organizations

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. Introduction and Motivation

   1. On the Status of Learning Software Organizations in the Year 2001

      • Raimund L. Feldmann, Klaus-Dieter Althoff

      Pages 2-6

3. Keynote Addresses and Panel

   1. Keynote Address: Organizational Learning in Dynamic Domains

      • Scott Henninger

      Pages 8-16

   2. Keynote Address: How Do Companies Learn? Selected Applications from the IT Sector

      • Franz Lehner

      Pages 17-17

   3. Panel: Knowledge Creating Communities

      • Dietmar Janetzko

      Pages 18-20

4. Planning LSOs

   1. The Organic and the Mechanistic Form of Managing Knowledge in Software Development

      • Ralph Trittmann

      Pages 22-36

   2. CORONET-Train: A Methodology for Web-Based Collaborative Learning in Software Organisations

      • Dietmar Pfahl, Niniek Angkasaputra, Christiane M. Differding, Günther Ruhe

      Pages 37-51

   3. Supporting Knowledge Management in University Software R&D Groups

      • Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim, Daniel Lichtnow, Aldo von Wangenheim, Eros Comunello

      Pages 52-66

5. Applications

   1. Organisational Learning and Software Process Improvement: A Case Study

      • Judith Segal

      Pages 68-82

   2. Collaboration Support for Virtual Data Mining Enterprises

      • Angi Voß, Gernot Richter, Steve Moyle, Alýpio Jorge

      Pages 83-95

   3. Skills Management as Knowledge Technology in a Software Consultancy Company

      • Torgeir DingsØyr, Emil RØyrvik

      Pages 96-103

6. Analysis

   1. Lessons Learned about Structuring and Describing Experience for Three Experience Bases

      • Mikael Lindvall, Michael Frey, Patricia Costa, Roseanne Tesoriero

      Pages 106-119

   2. Knowledge Elicitation through Web-Based Data Mining Services

      • Shonali Krishnaswamy, Seng Wai Loke, Arkady Zaslavsky

      Pages 120-134

   3. A Model for Analyzing Measurement Based Feedback Loops in Software Development Projects

      • Claus Lewerentz, Heinrich Rust, Frank Simon

      Pages 135-149

7. Learning

   1. Process-Integrated Learning: The ADVISOR Approach for Corporate Development

      • Philipp Starkloff, Katja Pook

      Pages 152-162

   2. Task-Specific Knowledge Management in a Process-Centred SEE

      • Harald Holz, Arne Könnecker, Frank Maurer

      Pages 163-177

   3. Computer-Supported Reuse of Project Management Experience with an Experience Base

      • Matthias Brandt, Markus Nick

      Pages 178-189

8. Additional Papers: LSO 2001 Posters

   1. The Integrated Corporate Information Network iCoIN: A Comprehensive, Web-Based Experience Factory

      • Björn Decker, Andreas Jedlitschka

      Pages 192-206

   2. Reuse of Measurement Plans Based on Process and Quality Models

      • Christiane M. Differding

      Pages 207-221

   3. Engineering Experience Base Maintenance Knowledge

      • Markus Nick, Klaus-Dieter Althoff

      Pages 222-236

The importance of production and use of high quality software is still growing, as more and more businesses depend on information technology. Well educated, highly skilled, and experienced employees characterize the situation in most companies in the developed countries. Increasingly they work together in temporary networks with geographically distributed offices. Using and developing their knowledge is a key issue in gaining competitive advantages. We have learned during recent years that the exchange and development of knowledge (which we call learning) demands a great deal of human interaction. However, it is widely recognized that information systems will, in many cases, enable the sharing of experience across distributed organizations and act as a knowledge repository. A Learning Software Organization (LSO) will turn Intellectual Capital into market shares and profit, as it establishes the means to manage its knowledge. The LSO workshop series was created in 1999 to provide a communication forum that addresses the questions of organizational learning from a software point of view and builds upon existing work on Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning. It aims at bringing together practitioners and researchers for an open exchange of experience with successes and failures in organizational learning. Right from the beginning, fostering interdisciplinary approaches and providing an opportunity to learn about new ideas has been a central issue of the workshop series. The feedback that we have obtained in recent years has encouraged us to continue our work for a better understanding of the setup and running of Learning Software Organizations.

• Web
• collaborative learning
• data mining
• knowledge management
• learning
• organization
• software engineering

• Fraunhofer IESE Sauerwiesen 6, Kaiserslautern, Germany

  Klaus-Dieter Althoff

• University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

  Raimund L. Feldmann

• FH Ludwigshafen, Ludwigshafen, Germany

  Wolfgang Müller

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