ACM1093-63

Communications of the ACM
October 93

Inside a software design team: knowledge acquisition, sharing and
integration
by Diane b. Walz, Joyce J. Elam and Bill Curtis 

Knowledge is the raw material of software design teams.

Conflict was the mechanism for facilitating learning.

The designers were not just trying to accept information. They were
attempting to integrate this information into their own working model
of the design task.