Can Managing Knowledge and Experience Improve Software Process? - Insights from the Literature

The field of knowledge management has gained wide attention across all industry sectors including software development. Managing accumulated knowledge and experiences of members of software engineering community is seen as a silver bullet to end many of the classical ills associated with the art of software development. Knowledge and experience management is also advocated in improving software development process. The present paper investigates the role of knowledge and experience management in improving the software process.