Panel: When Knowledge and Experience Repositories Grow New Challenges Arise

Knowledge and experience management is a key factor for learning software organizations. Consequently, many organizations are operating their own repositories to systematically store their knowledge and experience, and to provide them to the right users, at the right time. However, once a repository is successfully installed (which is a non-trivial task to start with) new challenges arise when we have to keep it continuously up-to-date. But how do we define "up-to-date"? In a business like software development, where product life cycle becomes shorter and technologies more and more dynamic, it seems to be crucial to always offer developers the latest (i.e., "freshest") knowledge to support their daily work. In addition, more stable knowledge such as recommended practices, lessons learned, and patterns should be preserved. Such kinds of entries usually become mature over time (i.e., they are "aged" – not fresh).