Integrating knowledge management with agile methodology to manage projects effectively

In organizations, knowledge management becomes more and more popular discipline and practice. Indeed, modern project management plays an important role in improving the efficiency of knowledge management. Agile Methodology is an emerging approach to manage projects smoothly. The paper aims to study background knowledge of Knowledge Management and Agile Methodology. Finally, a case study named using Knowledge Management and Agile Kanban to manage Final Projects in the ISD course will be fully illustrated.
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Integrating knowledge management with agile methodology to manage projects effectively INTEGRATING KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT WITH AGILE METHODOLOGY TO MANAGE PROJECTS EFFECTIVELY SVTH: Đỗ Văn Hòa, Nguyễn Đức Mạnh, Đào Phương Nam GVHD: ThS Đinh Thị Minh Nguyệt Tóm tắt: Trong các tổ chức, quản lý tri thức ngày càng trở thành kỷ luật và thông lệ phổ biến. Thật vậy, quản lý dự án hiện đại đóng một vai trò quan trọng trong việc nâng cao hiệu quả của quản lý tri thức. Phương pháp Agile là một cách tiếp cận mới nổi để quản lý các dự án một cách suôn sẻ. Bài báo nhằm mục đích nghiên cứu kiến thức nền tảng về Quản lý tri thức và Phương pháp Agile. Cuối cùng, một nghiên cứu điển hình có tên là sử dụng Quản lý tri thức và Agile Kanban để quản lý các Dự án cuối cùng trong khóa học ISD sẽ được minh họa đầy đủ. Abstract: In organizations, knowledge management becomes more and more popular discipline and practice. Indeed, modern project management plays an important role in improving the efficiency of knowledge management. Agile Methodology is an emerging approach to manage projects smoothly. The paper aims to study background knowledge of Knowledge Management and Agile Methodology. Finally, a case study named using Knowledge Management and Agile Kanban to manage Final Projects in the ISD course will be fully illustrated. Keywords: Knowledge Management, Project Management, Agile Methodology, Agile Frameworks, Kanban, Scrum, Parkinson’s Law. I. Introduction Currently, companies have experienced rapidly changing business competitions and constant technology innovations, requiring them to develop unique expertise through creativity and breakthroughs in order to sustain the organizations in the long term. This creative knowledge transforms into goods and services helping associations continue to exist and expand in the business. Although products and services own different characteristics, they are the final outcome or deliverables of various project initiatives of the organizations [1]. According to Ikujiro Nonaka, the author of the article named “The Knowledge-Creating Company” in Harvard Business Review, successful corporates are those that continually gain new knowledge, spread it broadly across the company, and efficiently incorporate it into modern technologies and products [2]. This research paper mentions some fundamental information of knowledge management. This is followed by discovering Agile methodology in project management. The paper then illustrates a case study called “Using Agile Kanban to Manage Final Projects in ISD course” so as to definitely prove how knowledge management and Agile methodology are combined into the project. 53 II. Content 1. Knowledge Management and its role in Project Management 1.1 Background information of Knowledge Management The terminology and definition of Knowledge Management (KM) arose from the management consulting areas [3]. Once the Internet appeared, those organizations promptly discovered that an intranet, a closed network of the Internet, was a fantastic tool for making knowledge available and sharing it among their geographically distributed units. They also understood that developing technical tools and methods which they obtained expertise could be a potential way to purchase these products to huge and decentralized incorporations. A new product, nevertheless, requires a particular name, and the name evolved was Knowledge Management. The first findings seem to come from McKinsey & Co. Brook Manville in 1987 with the aim of launching an internal research on their information analysis [4]. KM made its public debut in Boston in 1993, at a speech organized by Ernst and Young. Currently, Knowledge Management means the organization, capture, application, and study of a group's mutual information. In the corporate world, knowledge management often entails the upkeep of a knowledge base or portal where basic knowledge relevant to the organization is stored. Only a few programs are capable of actually transforming how an organization works, and knowledge management is one of them [5]. 1.2 The key benefits of knowledge management The more easily and efficiently it communicates knowledge with its workers, the better an organization performs. The following are some of the advantages of KM: ● More rapid decision-making ● Effective access to knowledge and information ● Enhanced collaboration and creativity ● Increased quality of data and information understanding ● Improved intellectual property protection ● Optimized training 1.3 Integrating Knowledge Management with Project Management Every company wishes to use project management to offer superior goods and services with long-term benefits to its consumers and users. If the organization can successfully apply knowledge management, it will be the secret to project management success and, as a result, will be capable of transforming the organization to excellence. Nevertheless, for the company to transform further, knowledge management must be combined with project management so as to collect information with the purpose of 54 solving specific challenges and easily sharing knowledge assets [1]. It is important to incorporate knowledge bases into projects such that project participants can combine their own contributions to those of the project's goals and comply with the strategy of the company. Levin, the author of the article “Knowledge Management success equals Project Management success”, recommends the following nine principles for organizations in order to ...