Storytelling as Method for Sharing Knowledge across IT Projects.

Lene Nielsen, Sabine Madsen

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Abstract

This paper develops a novel perspective on and a method for capturing and sharing knowledge across IT projects. The existing literature seems to contain two perspectives on how to achieve and share experiences between projects; a reflective perspective that focuses on individual project involvement and a formal perspective that prescribes written project documentation. However these perspectives only provide limited support for the development of a shared understanding and learning from other peoples’ experiences. Based on theory and supported by experiences and analysis of a workshop with practitioners the authors propose a third perspective - the narrative. The narrative perspective serves as a foundation for the development of a method that emphasizes collective sharing of knowledge through storytelling techniques. The suggested method lets the participants both reflect on their own practice through comparison with others’ and creates a process through which they can learn from other partakers’ experiences.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Place of PublicationKauai, HI, USA
PublisherIEEE
Publication date2006
ISBN (Print)0-7695-2507-5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2006
EventHawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2006 - Kauai, United States
Duration: 4 Jan 20067 Jan 2006
Conference number: 39
http://10.1109/HICSS.2006.438

Conference

ConferenceHawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2006
Number39
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityKauai
Period04/01/200607/01/2006
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