General Description

Removing Silos is about creating a collaborative environment for team members or colleagues that you work with. The silos occur when not all team members work in the same place which can often lead to isolation and a lack of collaboration.

To address the lone-wolf problem, because even an alpha developer can become overwhelmed with complex sites, collaboration is a must which in turn leads to rich creative thinking.

Collaborative teams are great fun, productive, and create highly polished and functional products. With the silos removed members of the team organically create a space where ideas can flourish.

Details

This talk will focus on how teams who collaborate can create what Keith Sawyer calls Group Flow. The silos are figurative and tools to help remove them will be touched upon such as IM clients, virtual work spaces like Open Atrium, real live face-to-face meetings, and collaborative version control systems such as BitBucket and gitHub.

Personal case-studies focused on attempts to foster collaboration between multidisciplinary teams with a focus on what worked best from a developers perspective will also be used in this presentation.

This is an attempt to understand the creative process that makes Drupal projects and the community great.