Persistence of the Memory : an introduction to the asset and intellectual capital management Application into the ETC project

What is the relationship between Information Technology and the knowledge that it generates during the systems design? How is this knowledge encoded and passed ? The skills acquired by mankind in the art of writing for the past seven millennia of history, are or are not used for encoding the software project documentation? If the answers are negative, what are the implications of this situation? In this article we examine these questions and present a viable solution using the tool IBM Rational Asset Manager for the hoarding of intellectual capital developed in the projects. This tool is also adopted in the ETC project to collect, manage and distribute all produced material in the experiments, in order to make it persistent and usable to all students and to teach them the right approach. Students seem to prefer the use and reuse of arrangements because they directly reuse pieces of knowledge; this is also what will be discussed in this paper.