Toward Collecting and Delivering Knowledge for Software Design at the Whiteboard

Knowledge – of all kinds – is essential to software design. It is well known, however, that most knowledge resides in the developers' heads. Especially when designing at the whiteboard, tool support is minimal, most often non-existent. In this brief research note, we sketch our ongoing research into supporting designers at the whiteboard with proactive knowledge that is collected, earlier, in some (semi-)automatic fashion.