Chapter 6 Tools and Technologies for Architecture Knowledge Management

Abstract As management of architectural knowledge becomes vital for improv-ing an organization’s architectural capabilities, support for (semi-) automating this management is required. There exist already several tools that specialize in architec-ture knowledge management, as well as generic technologies that can potentially be used for this purpose. Both tools and technologies cover a wide number of potential use cases for architecture knowledge management. In this chapter, we survey the existing tool support and related technologies for different architecture knowledge management strategies, and present them according to the use cases they offer. Architecting is a multifaceted technical process, involving complex knowledge-intensive tasks [198]. The knowledge that is both produced and consumed during the architecting activities is voluminous, broad, complex, and evolving and thus cannot be manually managed by the architect. Furthermore, such architectural knowledg