Project Management Insights: Improving Knowledge in Projects

May 8, 2008 from Raven's Brain: Project Management

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Time is short so I'll be brief. I just read part of Eric Brown's excellent post: Improving Knowledge in Projects. It's very detailed and I need to read the complete piece, as well as the full paper the post/excerpt came from, but I found the subject interesting and want to learn more. Here's a clip from the framework section:

Blaize Horner Reich, an Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University and Visiting Associate at Templeton College, Oxford University has developed a framework for knowledge management within IT Projects which seems promising. This framework, published in the Project Management Institutes’s Project Management Journal in an article titled “Managing Knowledge and Learning in IT Projects: A Conceptual Framework and Guidelines for Practice“, proposes a three level model that addresses the following topics:

  • Describes what “knowledge management in IT projects” is
  • Provides a typology of critical IT project knowledge
  • Identifies the top ten knowledge-based risks found in IT projects. In addition, key principles for knowledge management in IT projects are provided for use in helping build strong knowledge management capabilities within IT projects.

Reich’s framework is a good place to start as it provides a model built upon sound principles and research in the IT project space.

The first ‘level’ in Reich’s framework defines IT Project knowledge management as:

Knowledge management in the context of a project is the application of principles and processes designed to make relevant knowledge available to the project team. Effective knowledge management facilitates the creation and integration of knowledge losses and fills knowledge gaps throughout the duration of the project (Reich, 2007, p. 8).

Read more: http://ericbrown.com/improving-knowledge-in-projects.htm

Good stuff - Thanks to Eric for sharing his thoughts!

Quick post today - Enjoy!

posted by Raven Young at Raven's Brain under Project Management
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