Silo Busting
From AgileOpenNorthwest
Facilitator: Tom Perry
Contents |
Kinds of Silos
- Knowledge
- Departments
- Process/Methodology
- Divisions
- Geography/Time Zone
- Teams
- Producer/Consumer
- Feature Groups
- Product/Market
- Language
Strategies
- Ambassadors
- Cross Training
- Regular Face to Face Interaction
- Beer
- Isolation/Breaking down cliques
- Mindfulness
- Need Business Alignment
- How do you progress through Forming/Storming/Norming/Performing
- Has to be a desire to break silo
- Sharing Needs
- Expose & Resolve Conflicts
- "The Speed of Trust" - Steven Covey
- Competence
- Track Record
- Intent
- Integrity
- Silos, Politics & Turf Wars - Patrick Lencioni
- Seal Yourself Off
- Making the Introduction
Anti-Patterns
- Being the Middleman
- Trying to force it
- Live with it
- Not letting people fight the little battles
- Increase physical separation
- Treat as "not my job"
- Engage in "SiloThink"
- Thinking that groups can live without each other
- Blind men & Elephant
- Not seeing big picture
- Lack of consequences
- Victim Mentality
- Lack of shared objective
- Tie incentives to silo objectives
Other topics
- How can we bring in fun?
- Create the right environment to succeed
- eliminate fear
- create safety
- bring in toys
- Create many opportunities for shared experience
- Allow vulnerability/Risk taking
