Sean Gillies (Posts about engineering)https://sgillies.net/tags/engineering.atom2023-12-31T01:26:25ZSean GilliesNikolaSilos and opportunitieshttps://sgillies.net/2019/01/10/silos-and-opportunities.html2019-01-10T08:39:11-07:002019-01-10T08:39:11-07:00Sean Gillies<p>I've been reading and linking to Subbu Allamaraju's blog for more than
a decade. <a class="reference external" href="https://m.subbu.org/the-value-is-in-dealing-with-the-messy-stuff-d535f5f42b39">The Value is in Dealing with the Messy Stuff</a>
is a post about learning to see messy problems as opportunities and learning to
see silos as tools for solving messy problems. Mapbox, where I work, is exactly
at the stage where this mindset is helpful. Subbu uses team and silo almost
interchangeably, but I don't think it's intended that the reader equate them.
A team is part of an organization's model of how problems get solved and silos
are part of the observed reality of how problems get solved.</p>