How do you start Knowledge Transfer?
Do you use a formal event to get people talking in your IT department? Like a **monthly meetup** in a social place, a **internal wiki/chat** space or just a regular "information market" with some **presentations about technology or projects** made by your staff for your staff? Do you invite Sales people to participate or is it a closed event for programmers only?

How do you get people to participate in these events? Do you allow them to spent work time on knowledge transfer? Or do you understand it as an integral part of the work time?

I wonder how to monitor the progress of knowledge transfer itself. How do you spot critical one-person spots of failure in your projects? There are several methods to avoid it, like staff swapping or the "fifo" attempt on bug fixing.

*Note:* Ok, this is a very very noisy question and I hope to fix it after a few comments. Sorry for the mixup.
How do you start Knowledge Transfer?
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Do you use a formal event to get people talking in your IT department? Like a **monthly meetup** in a social place, a **internal wiki/chat** space or just a regular "information market" with some **presentations about technology or projects** made by your staff for your staff? Do you invite Sales people to participate or is it a closed event for programmers only?

How do you get people to participate in these events? Do you allow them to spent work time on knowledge transfer? Or do you understand it as an integral part of the work time?

I wonder how to monitor the progress of knowledge transfer itself. How do you spot critical one-person spots of failure in your projects? There are several methods to avoid it, like staff swapping or the "fifo" attempt on bug fixing.

*Note:* Ok, this is a very very noisy question and I hope to fix it after a few comments. Sorry for the mixup.