{"id":1062,"date":"2008-09-25T17:27:50","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T21:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2008-09-25T21:51:24","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T01:51:24","slug":"silos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?p=1062","title":{"rendered":"Silos"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following entry is a part of the Pattern Library<\/a>. The Pattern Library records the common patterns of events that have the potential to lead to project failure.<\/p>\n

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Name : <\/strong>Silos
\nType\u00a0:\u00a0<\/strong>Behavioral pattern (patterns that influence the actions of an individual or group)<\/p>\n

In brief :
\n<\/strong>Organizational boundaries between groups and organizations prevent free flows of communications or collaboration.<\/p>\n

Outline :
\n<\/strong>Many project teams are formed by resources from a number of different groups or organizations.\u00a0 In some cases the organizational boundaries between groups form walls that prevent the team acting as a single integrated entity.\u00a0\u00a0 Errors, omissions and bad assumptions arise at the interfaces between groups as different groups have different understandings of their own roles and the roles of others.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The resulting communications breakdowns result in\u00a0“Intellectual disintegration”<\/a>\u00a0(groups heading in different directions because of different understandings) and ineffective teamwork.<\/p>\n

Typical sequence of events :<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Team is formed from resources in different departments or\u00a0different organizations<\/li>\n
  2. Individuals fail to gel as a single team<\/li>\n
  3. Individuals focus on performing the role as they define it within their own group.\u00a0 Assumptions about roles of other groups are never formally discussed<\/li>\n
  4. Resulting gaps allow for errors and omissions to grow<\/li>\n
  5. Late breaking issues arise as a result of\u00a0the errors and omissions.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Negative effects :<\/strong><\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Undetected errors and omissions<\/li>\n
    2. Increased burden on project’s leadership as they manage issues arising from\u00a0poor collaboration.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Common Root Causes :<\/strong><\/p>\n

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      1. Significant culture differences between groups<\/li>\n
      2. Gravitation <\/a>(we are familiar with our own groups and hence focus internally within our own group rather than thinking of the needs of the overall project)<\/li>\n
      3. Allegiance to one group and the tendency to externalise all problems onto other groups.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Suggested Actions :<\/strong><\/p>\n

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        1. Co-locate people from different groups into a single team office or location<\/li>\n
        2. Create a\u00a0team culture that is stronger than the allegiance to the individual groups<\/li>\n
        3. Establish clear expectations concerning how the team will work and interact together<\/li>\n
        4. Ensure people from different groups share their expectations and assumptions with everyone else so that assumptions about roles and ways of interacting are surfaced and addressed.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          The following entry is a part of the Pattern Library. The Pattern Library records the common patterns of events that have the potential to lead to project failure. Name : Silos Type\u00a0:\u00a0Behavioral pattern (patterns that influence the actions of an individual or group) In brief : Organizational boundaries between groups and organizations prevent free flows […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8],"tags":[135,136],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behavioral-pattern","category-pattern","tag-behavioral-pattern","tag-pattern"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1067,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions\/1067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}