Summary: Knowledge silos can frustrate engineers by preventing effective communication and collaboration across teams. To address this issue, organizations should create horizontal information-sharing pathways, improve documentation practices, and foster a culture of transparency and teamwork. By focusing on these solutions, companies can enhance productivity and reduce frustration among their teams.
Teams spend too much time reinventing the wheel just because they can’t find existing resources or learnings. (View Highlight)
The purpose of writing documentation is NOT to produce a lot of text. It’s to capture the most vital knowledge about the reasoning behind crucial decisions and fundamental principles (View Highlight)
When teams are too isolated or too specialized, they usually develop their own way of working. This puts their focus on achieving their team’s outputs rather than the organization’s goals and real outcomes. (View Highlight)