... possible barriers and obstacles to knowledge management initiatives in software engineering.4.1 Needs in software engineeringThe field of software engineering have some interesting knowledge related ... when determining the success in this way of thinking. Thomas Davenport,who is one of the most in uential authors in the domain, suggests to approach knowledge as an element in a value chain, that ... the idea of knowledge is explained by comparing it with the concepts of data, information and wisdom, in a model called The Data, Information, Knowledge, and WisdomHierarchy (DIKW). In general,...