Knowledge sharing seem to be a hard challenge.
So, here is the question: How do you promote knowledge sharing inside your team and/or organization?
Please share your awesome tips and resources to go deeper on the subject!
Knowledge sharing seem to be a hard challenge.
So, here is the question: How do you promote knowledge sharing inside your team and/or organization?
Please share your awesome tips and resources to go deeper on the subject!
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Tough one, being the person who wants to acquire the knowledge, you can use these methods:
Take the next maintenance task for any system you do not know:
Pair program with someone who does know the system:
Ask your teammates / manager about the system:
Play with the code and see what happens:
Now, as the person who has the knowledge:
Write tests for your team:
Create a wiki and put important processes there.
Be willing to share the knowledge and share multiple times if you must:
If anybody read this comment, I highly recommend reading the article. It is very well written and makes a lot of good points.
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Tips for Boosting Knowledge Sharing
Robin Duda (they/them) ・ Oct 7 ・ 8 min read
An idea that I found interesting lately is taking notes as a team.
The idea is to have a low friction process for the team to take notes and share them with others.
I found this article from @cassidoo really interesting on the subject (it is from this article that I learned about the idea):
First of all, I think that we should try to provide an environment as safe as possible for anybody to share.
I think that people will not share their knowledge if they fear being judged or if they are in a very competitive environment where their knowledge is their edge over the others.
Communities of practice.