How to build silos and decrease collaboration on purpose

Re:How to build silos and decrease collaboration on purpose by alecco on Saturday September 04, 2021 @05:16AM (#28413443)

Say QA dumps a badly tested release which causes a lot of weekend drama for Prod and QA does not own up to management or apologize to Prod (e.g. they did it under pressure from Business or Marketing). In retaliation Prod doesn't approve releases after Wednesdays. I've seen much worse than this.

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Re:How to build silos and decrease collaboration on purpose by sokoloff on Saturday September 04, 2021 @06:35AM (#28413828)

Prod probably doesn’t even think of this retaliation; they just think they’re acting like the sensible adults in a company that just needs to “become professional” here.

A lot of company red tape was thought to be green tape when implemented.

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Re:How to build silos and decrease collaboration on purpose by afarrell on Saturday September 04, 2021 @08:08AM (#28414344)

Yea, this sounds like the sort of problem described by Patrick Lencioni

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Re:How to build silos and decrease collaboration on purpose by dgb23 on Saturday September 04, 2021 @06:33AM (#28413824)

So people becoming defensive because they are not treated honestly, while everyone is afraid of doing mistakes.

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Re:How to build silos and decrease collaboration on purpose by loopz on Sunday September 05, 2021 @10:38AM (#28424656)

That's when it get outright toxic. What is much more common is just all the gaps between solid silo walls.

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