I saw this pic on a slide in an online tutorials about DevOps, and it immediately caught my attention, hey! I recognize this!
How common is it to throw the stuff over the wall....but wait! we do take ownership of the 'stuff with us', but probably when done with 'our part', we tend to pass it over without too much of deliberation, or concern, or knowledge about it thereafter.
(image courtesy udacity.com)
...and what if the end user (customer) throws is back too!?...remember when that happened to you last time?...to me that happened just last week.
If I go back few years, I have had stuff thrown over to me and having no clue what to do with it, and how to deal with the situation, task or whatever, and I recall having done this myself (hey unintentional! OK :P), and stuff happens, and the question is - can it be avoided....Yes!, of course.
Communication is the key! To some it comes with ease, while for few others it is just ain't easy. Just like everything else, it takes practice, more practice and little courage and I heard beer works great too :D !
Ownership and a bit of attitude to pick up and fix the stuff! Some of us might think that "ownership" means more actions on oneself, but in my opinion ownership gives you more choices to act, and better control over any situation.
...and Break the silos!...is it same as communication?...well I think it is more about those 'virtual' walls we usually have created, than 'communication;...what say? Silos could exist between two people sitting next to each other, who talk so often. It is like being a bird in 'cage without walls'. Sorry I just over-complicated the definition of silos :P
We all love to get the things done, no one wants to be on team that has customer throwing stuff back at them, is n't it?, but working in silos is just so convenient at times, people just find it easy to 'throw over the wall'.
Enough, I am done! Going back to my next slide...
