ENHANCING TASK RELATED KNOWLEDGE SHARING IN AGILE VIRTUAL TEAMS: FROM INFLUENCING FACTORS TO PRACTICAL GUIDELINES – KSAVT FRAMEWORK

Task-relevant knowledge sharing (TaRK) is an essential process in maintaining alignment, collaboration, and learning within geographically dispersed teams in distributed agile environments. Established on the existing Knowledge Sharing for Agile Virtual teams (KSAVT) Framework, this study clarifies the role of task-level practices in ensuring effective knowledge sharing and improving collective performance. Based on a qualitative multiple case study of three international software organizations and eight practitioners, the research validates seven task-related influencing factors (IFs) and offers eight practical guidelines that put these influencing factors into practice in real-world agile settings. The results suggest that sustaining knowledge sharing in distributed agile environments depends on open communication, workload sharing, repeated reflection, and relevant filtering. In theory, the study adds to the KSAVT Framework by showing how efficient task related knowledge sharing can convert an individual’s capacity of doing a task into team’s capability. In practice, it gives agile teams clear steps to make task related knowledge sharing a part of their daily routine, which helps them become more flexible, learn faster, and work better together. Consequently, task-oriented knowledge sharing becomes an active, iterative process that turns everyday work into learning loops, promoting adaptability and sustained team performance.