How we fix Knowledge Silos within our teams
How do teams I work with make sure that the experts in the team share their knowledge with the rest of the team members?
I don’t know about you, but I have seen cases where two engineers build the same feature twice simply because no one knew the code already existed.
Knowledge silos quietly form inside teams even when everyone’s talented and well-intentioned.
It starts small: one person owns the workaround, another handles the tool. And before you know it, information is locked away, and progress declines the moment someone moves on.
Have you witnessed this?
I’ve watched teams struggle with this, and I’ve been part of teams that finally broke through this problem as well.
The difference?
They stopped accepting silos as “just the way things are” and got intentional about sharing what they knew.
In this post, I’ll share the steps teams I’ve worked with used to break down knowledge silos.
If you’ve ever worried your team is one vacation away from chaos, this one’s for you.
Let’s get started.
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