[OA.PPD.6] Promote knowledge sharing through inter-team interest groups

Category: RECOMMENDED

Facilitate and support knowledge-sharing opportunities and interest groups, often called skills guilds, that allow individuals to interact with other like-minded people within the organization on topics of interest. These groups can partake in activities such as internal blogging, hosting internal conferences, attending external events, or group discussions. These opportunities allow for individuals to share their experiences, discuss industry trends, and collaborate on projects with others outside of their immediate team.

Allocate time and resources to support these opportunities and groups tailored based on your organization's unique needs and circumstances. This can range from dedicating specific hours each week, providing meeting spaces, or assigning budget for professional development courses and symposiums. Hosting lunch and learns or tech talks, where passionate individuals or teams discuss specific topics or showcase their projects, can be a great start to facilitating inter-team collaboration.

We recommend creating groups which focus on each of the DevOps Sagas presented in this guidance. Groups may choose to further expand into sub-groups to focus on individual capabilities, such as continuous deployment, everything-as-code, monitoring, or security testing, as they see fit. These opportunities and groups help to break down silos and improve cross-team collaboration, which can hasten DevOps adoption.