“You want to use this with no procedures ?”.

I sat down again and tried to explain that the best way to get technical people to talk to each other was to give them something new to play with and allow them to share ideas and show off a little. Compared to the Quality Management System and the Work Request System which we had spent all morning discussing the Wiki seemed an easy and simple win.

We had discussed the best way to introduce these two new systems across Europe for hours. Negotiating different working practices, legal requirements and the patchy response of what is laughing called a global network. All of that needing to have formal procedures and documentation to support them.

The WIki seems simple enough. Self regulating, easy to use, no overhead in terms of managing it, fun.

It seems to be a real struggle to get people to collaborate, share information and learn and grow.

I really can’t see that loading more procedures and formality onto people will help that.

So, yes. We will use it without procedures and we will try it make it work.