🌽 What is the easiest way to avoid silos?

Silos occur when a person or group of people operate in isolation from the rest of the organization. One of the reasons you have failure in organizations is one silo does not know that the other silo is doing.

Silos are deadly in our organizations. How can we avoid them? The efficient way is to use open, transparent, and common systems where possible for:

• Issue/project tracking
• Part number management
• Information storage (design files should be versioned in Git)
• Releases
• Change control and review (Pull requests)
• Documentation (Markdown, CSV, etc)

Software developers build really good workflow tools. Why, because they can build their OWN tools. For this reason, no matter what your discipline, I recommend starting with Git*. For small teams, this can get you most of the way there. For larger teams, you may need something more comprehensive like odoo. But, start small with Git*, cover the basics, and add more complex systems when needed.