Successful Architectural Knowledge Sharing: Beware of Emotions

This chapter presents the analysis and key findings of a survey on architectural knowledge sharing. The responses of 97 architects working in the Dutch IT Industry were analyzed by correlating practices and challenges with project size and success. Impact mechanisms between project size, project success, and architectural knowledge sharing practices and challenges were deduced based on reasoning, experience and literature. We find that architects run into numerous and diverse challenges sharing architectural knowledge, but that the only challenges that have a significant impact are the emotional challenges related to interpersonal relationships. Thus, architects should be careful when dealing with emotions in knowledge sharing.

Authors and Affiliations

1. Logica, Amstelveen, The Netherlands

   Eltjo R. Poort & Michiel Perdeck

2. VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

   Agung Pramono, Viktor Clerc & Hans van Vliet

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Eltjo R. Poort .

Editors and Affiliations

1. Lero- The Irish Software Engineering, Research Center, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

   Muhammad Ali Babar

2. , Dept. Information & Communication, SINTEF, Trondheim, 7465, Norway

   Torgeir Dingsøyr

3. Fac. Sciences, Dept. Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1081a, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, Netherlands

   Patricia Lago

4. Dept. Mathematics &, Computer Sciences, Free University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081 A, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, Netherlands

   Hans van Vliet

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