Wiki-based Knowledge Management In Small and Medium Projects

Knowledge is the most valuable asset of teams. At present, members in small and medium projects usually carry out each task in the form of temporary project teams. In this process, although the members of the teams could exchange information and experience with each other by which everyone would promote himself on technology and experience, large amount of valuable knowledge resources relating to the project, especially tacit knowledge, perished while the teams are disbanded. Therefore, it is necessary to organize and manage the knowledge resources systemically. In this paper, a new Wiki-based project knowledge management is proposed through study of a real world case and the characteristics of the small and medium projects. In this model, members in the team could exchange and share the knowledge in a free environment, and contribute to the project management. And then the KM architecture based on the project is built. Finally, the advantages and the limitations of the model are discussed and then some valuable suggestions for Wiki-based knowledge management system are proposed as well.