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The role of case studiem and management experience in the education and personal development …So that, managing knowledge and project experiences should enable making projectdecisions. In addition, it also has an educational role, because it provides a referencepoint, while next projects are realizing. Because the project is unique and unrepeatable,predicting all its aspects is impossible(Schwalbe, 2010). But the study historical experiencefrom other projects may help to prevent some errors. Thus, basing on the experienceallows to reducing of project risk(Parth, Snyder, 2007).Project experiences can also be a starting point for training project managers.Therefore, the subject of management knowledge and experience in projects is worthto be related to training of project managers. It is adopted in the education of managersthat example case studies, which include simplified project situations, are the startingpoint. In this chapter there is presented the proposal to extend such training for a newapproach based on quantitative data collected during the project implementation. Thisapproach, which is based on case studies and also on experiences gained during theimplementations of specific projects, is somewhat broader approach bringing out thecontext of project management.Therefore, the aim of this chapter is to present the concept concerning education ofproject managers on the basis of experience from real projects and using of recordingdecisions taken in these projects. In the first part of the chapter there is shown the impactof experience on the development of project management skills, and there is alsopointed the need for historical data about the projects in order to make better projectdecisions. In the following, there is highlighted the importance of case studies for thepurpose of improving managerial skills. chapter is finished by the presentation concerningconcept of using records of project experiences, which are built-in in tools,which are used to managing projects.2. Managing knowledge and experience in IT projectsKnowledge management process described by Probst is a universal process thatworks in both the projects as well as any other(Probst, Raub, Romhardt, 2002). Thisprocess is inherently runs in four main stages: locating, collecting, developing andsharing knowledge.Locating knowledge in the case of a project manager is to extract these sources,which can be helpful in making project decisions. These sources can be either relatedto the documentation of previous projects stored in repositories, and may also involvehidden knowledge held by the participants of the project. The project manager shouldbe aware of potential sources of knowledge needed to manage the project.Accumulation of knowledge is a process associated with formal ordering of previouslylocalized knowledge. The role of the manager is to reject this knowledge, whichis less important, and gather this one, that which is necessary for the project. The accumulationcan be non-structured (some project management support systems have38