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Jake Trent
September 30, 2010
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Breaking Down Knowledge Silos
Teams have to work together, sharing knowledge, to create the best products.
Jake Trent
September 30, 2010
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Transcript
Breaking Down Knowledge Silos Within a Software Project Fun with
Jake Trent
Blowing up Knowledge Silos Within a Software Project More! fun
with Jake Trent
What is in the silo
Developer Knowledge Business requirements How the code works Design, paradigms
The why Pitfalls
Why you want to blow stuff up
Customer Smiles Better product Meets requirement Best practices Stable Maintainable
Truck Factor Number of people that need to be run
over before your project’s in trouble
Helpful Team Members Versatile No problems beyond your ability
Limit Liability No single point of failure
Maintenance Spread across teams
How the team can help
Pair Programming Devs talking to devs Pairs change more dev
/ mgmt
Pair Programming Owner-Visitor dev / mgmt
c c Stories Stories
c c Stories Stories
c c c c Stories Stories Stories Stories
Culture Developer-driven dev / mgmt
Introspective What don’t I know about? What’s high risk? What’s
highest priority? What’s the hardest/easiest? Why? What has the least/most bugs? Why? What’s behind/ahead of schedule? Why? dev
Mental Picture Story owners More fluid partnerships dev / mgmt
Tasks Well-defined Small dev / mgmt
Fear …leads to suffering dev / mgmt
Ownership Total product dev
Now, go blow up some silos! (Knowledge silos only) jaketrent.com
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