KDD, as an IT project delivery methodology, is still in its infancy and this book is the first attempt to bring the concept to the academia and industry. As it relates to knowledge, the concepts of KDD are also relevant to areas other than IT project delivery.

In chapter 1, we have seen how knowledge is split into four levels that can be captured in eight building blocks. In chapter 4, we have seen how these eight building blocks, when customised to IT project delivery, become 18 building blocks. In this chapter we will reverse engineer 18 building blocks and understand how they comply with the Generic Knowledge Management Framework (GKMF) introduced in chapter 1. We will go through examples of KDD in action in areas other than software development.

We will focus on the domain knowledge portion of GKMF. Through examples, we will demonstrate that GKMF has all the capability to grow into a skill development framework.

KDD and Generic Knowledge Management Framework

Let's recollect the Generic Knowledge Management Framework that we have introduced in chapter 1. Figure 15.1 is taken from chapter 1.

The four levels of knowledge covering end-to-end knowledge are:

The level of knowledge is contextual and something at abstract knowledge level in one context can be at project knowledge level in another context.

The respective stakeholders at these levels of knowledge are:

When we apply this concept to software development, the number of building blocks changes to 18 for project knowledge as shown in Figure 15.3.