jts mcdlxxxvi jts1486theworldcom win treese owen replied well imnho companies reward knowledge sharers dont work area suspicion many people suspect projects knowledge management knowledge sharing attempts eliminate jobs least importance organization knows things know need agree wholeheartedly easier sit knowledge continually acquire frontiers actually easy test experimentally compare results someone call say show us x project working someone summoned knowledge management project explain x knowledge archives fact true people hate several reasons experience 1 software changes waste time writing faq date next release 3 months 2 knowledge specialized 4 people need know already anyone else needs know know call engineers give excuses spend eternities phone discussing arcana sharing knowledge anyone patience ask strongest contributors freely share everything know whenever asked whenever see need information company time continue generate new knowledge personal evaluation worth comes slightly lower scale synthesize knowledge various personal sharing exercises usable documents messages company employ would seem like marketing exercise except marketing useless useful knowledge sharing comes imho engineering sales jts httpxentcommailmanlistinfofork tue 23 jul 2002 164233 0400 nytimescom article nice wired cooperate