Abstract
Pair-programming is aimed to provide knowledge-intensive organisations to better manage their knowledge value. There are multiple ways to capture organization’s knowledge and make it available to all their members while it is not easy to capture/share the tacit knowledge among the stakeholders. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of pair-programming on the in-house software development for preserving tacit knowledge. We conducted a survey to study the impact of these five factors on the tacit knowledge sharing between the developers within the in-house software development environment.This paper is firstly exploring the definition of the knowledge and introducing the types of knowledge those are explicit and tacit knowledge. We discuss the in-house software development concept in which the non-IT organizations may need to develop their own software internally with no need to have a third party software development organization. For tacit knowledge sharing, we considered four factors reviewed in other researches and we added to them the pair programming as a practice. Case study is local bank in Palestine. Based on the results we have, it is confirmed the hypothesis of a positive effect of working in pairs on the process of knowledge sharing.
Highlights
It is important to distinguish between data, information and knowledge
To be very effective in this process, we suggest to extensively using of information technology as a tool for dissemination of information and knowledge sharing
We claimed benefits of factors of success is fostering of tacit knowledge transfer between the team members
Summary
It is important to distinguish between data, information and knowledge. Data is discrete, it is the essential raw material used to create information. Data become information when the meaning is added, has meaningful structures. Knowledge is the interpretation of information within its context. It is the result of perception, learning and reasoning. Knowledge assists the organization to make decisions and take effective actions to achieve their businesses. There are two types of knowledge based on Polanyi‟s definition [1], namely explicit and tacit knowledge[2]
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