Advances in Learning Software Organizations

The importance of production and use of high quality software is still growing, as more and more businesses depend on information technology. Well educated, highly skilled, and experienced employees characterize the situation in most companies in the developed countries. Increasingly they work together in temporary networks with geographically distributed offices. Using and developing their knowledge is a key issue in gaining competitive advantages. We have learned during recent years that the exchange and development of knowledge (which we call learning) demands a great deal of human interaction. However, it is widely recognized that information systems will, in many cases, enable the sharing of experience across distributed organizations and act as a knowledge repository. A Learning Software Organization (LSO) will turn Intellectual Capital into market shares and profit, as it establishes the means to manage its knowledge. The LSO workshop series was created in 1999 to provide a communication forum that addresses the questions of organizational learning from a software point of view and builds upon existing work on Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning. It aims at bringing together practitioners and researchers for an open exchange of experience with successes and failures in organizational learning. Right from the beginning, fostering interdisciplinary approaches and providing an opportunity to learn about new ideas has been a central issue of the workshop series. The feedback that we have obtained in recent years has encouraged us to continue our work for a better understanding of the setup and running of Learning Software Organizations.

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and Motivation.- On the Status of Learning Software Organizations in the Year 2001.- Keynote Addresses and Panel.- Keynote Address: Organizational Learning in Dynamic Domains.- Keynote Address: How Do Companies Learn? Selected Applications from the IT Sector.- Panel: Knowledge Creating Communities.- Planning LSOs.- The Organic and the Mechanistic Form of Managing Knowledge in Software Development.- CORONET-Train: A Methodology for Web-Based Collaborative Learning in Software Organisations.- Supporting Knowledge Management in University Software R&D Groups.- Applications.- Organisational Learning and Software Process Improvement: A Case Study.- Collaboration Support for Virtual Data Mining Enterprises.- Skills Management as Knowledge Technology in a Software Consultancy Company.- Analysis.- Lessons Learned about Structuring and Describing Experience for Three Experience Bases.- Knowledge Elicitation through Web-Based Data Mining Services.- A Model for Analyzing Measurement Based Feedback Loops in Software Development Projects.- Learning.- Process-Integrated Learning: The ADVISOR Approach for Corporate Development.- Task-Specific Knowledge Management in a Process-Centred SEE.- Computer-Supported Reuse of Project Management Experience with an Experience Base.- Additional Papers: LSO 2001 Posters.- The Integrated Corporate Information Network iCoIN: A Comprehensive, Web-Based Experience Factory.- Reuse of Measurement Plans Based on Process and Quality Models.- Engineering Experience Base Maintenance Knowledge.- Announcements.- Announcement of LSO Discussion Forum.- Announcements.- Announcement of LSO 2002.