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A Model for Assessing Organizational Learning in Software Development Organizations

A Model for Assessing Organizational Learning in Software Development Organizations

  • Oumout Chouseinoglou19 &
  • Semih Bilgen20 
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Abstract

In order to keep up with the continuously increasing competition and to obtain competitive advantage, software developer organizations (SDO) need to possess the characteristics of Learning Software Organizations (LSO). Maturity is directly related to both learning and knowledge management (KM). However, the major software process improvement (SPI) approaches do not explicitly address how learning capabilities of a SDO can be assessed or what knowledge needs to be managed and how, when, where, or by and for whom. This paper introduces a model for evaluating the organizational learning characteristics of a SDO. We report the results of applying the model in a university course on software development.

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  • Learning software organization
  • software process improvement
  • SQ4R

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  1. Statistics and Computer Science Department, Başkent University, 06810, Ankara, Turkey

    Oumout Chouseinoglou

  2. Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Middle East Technical University, 06531, Ankara, Turkey

    Semih Bilgen

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  1. IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier, France

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  2. Computer Science Department, University of Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 21, D-18051, Rostock, Germany

    Peter Forbrig

  3. ICS-IRIT, University Paul Sabatier, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062, Toulouse Cedex 9, France

    Regina Bernhaupt

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Chouseinoglou, O., Bilgen, S. (2012). A Model for Assessing Organizational Learning in Software Development Organizations. In: Winckler, M., Forbrig, P., Bernhaupt, R. (eds) Human-Centered Software Engineering. HCSE 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7623. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34347-6_15

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