Dear friends plz help me out to figure out the research plan for my
doctoral dissertation, i am giving some basic details and need your
contribution to give it final shape. plz help me in figureing out the
final research plan..
IN AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
Research Plan:

Research to answer following questions:
Q1: What are the factors that influence organisations to adopt agile
methods?
Q2: What are the sources and types of evidence that practitioners use
in order to decide whether or not to adopt agile methods?
Q3:What are the evidences behind claming effects and benefits of ASD?
Q4:Without proper documentation is knowledge is transferable,
understandable and manageable.
Q5:ASD is an effective means of knowledge dissemination and knowledge
retention that has a positive influence on the Knowledge Management
practices of a company or organization.
Q6:The impact of agile practices on communication in software
development or overall software development

To answer this question we divide the study in three phases
1. Literature study
2. Systematic review
3. Case study or Survey

As agile software development has many techniques. We focus on Pair
programming (XP). Or sir we can initially focus on all techniques and
later on pair programming.

Literature Reviewed: Review of max. possible literature on Knowledge
management in software development and giving emphesis on KM in Agile
software development.

Systematic Review:
I will try to answer Q1,Q2,Q3 in systemetic review. To systematize all
evidence on effects and benefits of ASD from the previous empirical
studies ,
We can summarise and analyse some of the previous works. In this study
we can analyse the factors such as
time to market
improved quality or productivity
cost/benefits etc

On the basis of these factors we will analyse the previous studies and
finally their implications.

Surveys or Case studies (Empirical investigation)
By empirical investigation, we can try to answer rest of the
questions
plz help me in figure out my phd research plan....
Regards
Amitoj Singh