Study goals
Investigate, from the practitioners’ perspective, how the use of collaborative social media tools contributes to knowledge sharing in IT projects, to identify existing problems within this underexplored field of knowledge and gather useful information to construct solution-oriented artifacts to solve them
Relevance / originality
As a reasonably new field of research, there ispresent and future interest in investigating the use of social media to support knowledge sharing in IT projects, to construct solution-oriented knowledge, and to develop practical artifacts directed towards supporting practitioners,
Methodology / approach
This research adopted a qualitative method with exploratory approach, materialized by conducting semi-structured interviews with fifteen senior Brazilian IT project managers from distinct business sectors. The interview was designed and conducted according to the guidelines of a seven stages systematic process.
Main results
Few tools concentrate most of the use reported and e-mails and file system directories are still intensely used. The increasing importance of the integrated tools was identified. COVID-19 pandemic led organizations to a more intensive use of social media tools in teleworking.
Theoretical / methodological contributions
This study will provide a deeper understanding of the addressed subject, bringing benefits to the communities of researchers and professionals in project management and knowledge management
Social / management contributions
The findings will provide information and insights on the definition and development of artifacts to support knowledge sharing in IT projects. Once developed and made available, the use of such artifacts can increase efficiency and positively influencing IT projects success.