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project management and collaboration support, project wikis should be seen as an attractive, lightweight,
all-purpose alternative.
The background of P4 was the use of project wikis in many project teams in the 2007
cohort of the SE project course. The wiki seemed to be popular as a collaboration tool
and used for many purposes in the projects, and this led to my decision to investigate
the project wikis in more detail.
Figure 10: Screen shot from a project wiki main page as the project approached
final deadline. Note the strikethroughs of completed tasks in the to-do-list.
In P4 it is shown how lightweight project management tools can serve the needs of
small-scale SE project work. In particular, project wikis have a flexibility which makes
it possible to adapt them to a team‟s emerging needs, effectively providing integration
of work across several dimensions. It was found that the project wikis served to
integrate social and task-oriented aspects of work (see Figure 10, which includes
examples of both), integrate team-internal and team-external information, and integrate
work across artifacts. In this way, the wiki played different roles within the project: as a
knowledge repository for the team and other stakeholders, as a stage for the team to
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