Let Team Preferences Guide Knowledge Sharing Practices
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By Yasmina Khelifi, PMP, PMI-ACP, PMI-PBA
In my last post, I wrote about the benefits of sharing knowledge. Now it’s time to talk about how you’ll document and maintain that information. And this is where project leaders should turn to their teams for ideas.
A few years ago, I belonged to a very efficient and collaborative project team. We were all responsible for a service deployed across different manufacturers’ models, hence the importance of having up-to-date information. We maintained a spreadsheet file shared on a cloud service and we updated it regularly, as agreed on by the team. Then a new manager decided to implement a different system. The team was told to send all information to two administrators who would handle updates.
You can imagine what happened.
Almost no one sent the information and the system was decommissioned after two years. As a result, all the knowledge our team had built over the years was lost. What was deemed a more professional or advanced tool ended up crippling the knowledge base.
As a project leader, we need to trust our teams and let them define the best ways to share and store information. We’re not talking here about an encyclopedia of knowledge. It’s really just enough documentation to help handover and onboarding.
One of the best ways to ensure knowledge sharing is to record presentations and conference calls. You can also take detailed notes to share with other project team members.
Another major part of closing the information loop within teams is to solicit and give constructive criticism and feedback. Postmortems, retrospectives or lessons learned are an invaluable opportunity to share knowledge and ultimately document it.
How do you let team preferences shape your approach to sharing knowledge?
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Luis Branco
CEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, Ldª
Carcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Dear Yasmina
Very interesting the theme that brought to our reflection and debate
Thanks for sharing and for your opinion.
I was intrigued to think. Why is "Almost no one sent the information and the system was decommissioned after two years."?
Rami Kaibni
Community Champion
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates
New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Yasmina
Great perspective. I totally agree with your point that you need to trust you team and how they would like to handle knowledge sharing.
RK
Kwiyuh Michael Wepngong
Community Champion
Financial Management Specialist | US Peace Corps
Yaounde, Centre, Cameroon
Thanks Yasmina,
You said "As a project leader, we need to trust our teams and let them define the best ways to share and store information". I totally agree with you and more again that a new tech not adapted and validated by any team is destructive
All is about trust!
Thank you for sharing.
Hi Mayte, thank you so much for your feedback!
Hi Kwiyuh, thank you so much for your feedback! stay safe, Yasmina
Hi Rami, thank you so much for your feedback. Stay safe! Yasmina
Hi Luis, thank you so much for your feedback and curiosity. I think we stopped to send because we were not accountable any more and perhaps because we did not fully agree with the new organization set up.
Manuel Ancizu
Program Manager Wind Energy| Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy
Pamplona, Navarra, Spain
Hi Yasmina,
something I've learned over the years is that "nobody knows the job better than the ones that are actually doing it, the ones that have hands-on experience". So when management wants to improve something, the best move is to ask the right questions to those who actually performs the job, they know all the right answers.
Perfect.
Thank you for sharing
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