NDLI: Using an intranet to manage knowledge for a virtual project team

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Using an intranet to manage knowledge for a virtual project team

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Jennex, Murray E.
Copyright Year	2000
Abstract	The Year 2000 (Y2K), or millennium bug as it has been called in thepopular press, has caused many organizations to form Y2K projectteams tasked with finding and fixing date problems in critical appli-cations, embedded systems, and IT infrastructure. Most of theseprojects have had to perform this task under severe time restraints,typically two years or less. Additionally, these projects have beenconstrained with limited resources and staff. Project teams needed tomaximize utilization of knowledge and experience gained during theproject so they could perform to their maximum capability. Contin-ued viability of the organization was at stake in most of these projects.One of the key problems to maximizing knowledge utilization isleveraging knowledge gained by a project member or sub-team withthe rest of the project. An example of how one such project imple-mented knowledge management to optimize knowledge sharing isdescribed in this chapter. The example project is in a large electricutility in the western United States and was focused on the assess-ment, testing, and remediation of physical assets/embedded systems.Since this utility is spread over approximately 50,000 square miles avirtual project team was formed. The leadership for this team con-
Starting Page	241
Ending Page	259
Page Count	19
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DOI	10.4018/978-1-878289-82-7.ch012
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Language	English
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Content Type	Text
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