Why To Research in Knowledge Management in Software Engineering Processes?

Knowledge Management is a young discipline that nowadays it is important for software development organizations (SDO). For this reason, this paper presents a review about the form knowledge management has been included in several Software Process Reference Models. For this study, five software process reference models, broadly used in Latin-American countries, were analyzed. The findings of this study show that in all models there are elements of knowledge management processes, and there are two models with a process area named Knowledge Management. Nevertheless, the knowledge management aspects included in these models is grounded in statements from Earl’s systems and engineering schools. Likewise, in terms of Gold’s knowledge management capabilities, the technology, knowledge acquisition and knowledge conversion capabilities are broadly covered but elements for others capabilities are not included in these reference models.