In my experience, I've seen more cases of low bus factor where the name of the game was to hide what one knew. It becomes a terrible work environment for newcomers. From what I understood by talking to many senior folks, they see it as a matter of survival in an increasingly cost-driven environment. There's no room to grow further so they tend to cling to stuff they control and not share it with anyone.
I don't know how to solve it at an org level. How can everyone keep growing so they have an incentive to share what they know? Or maybe if there's no room to grow in the org, people should also look elsewhere. But at the team level, sure things can be made more open and accessible to all.
Great article Riccardo.
In my experience, I've seen more cases of low bus factor where the name of the game was to hide what one knew. It becomes a terrible work environment for newcomers. From what I understood by talking to many senior folks, they see it as a matter of survival in an increasingly cost-driven environment. There's no room to grow further so they tend to cling to stuff they control and not share it with anyone.
I don't know how to solve it at an org level. How can everyone keep growing so they have an incentive to share what they know? Or maybe if there's no room to grow in the org, people should also look elsewhere. But at the team level, sure things can be made more open and accessible to all.
Thanks for the mention as well!
Thank you for taking the time 👍