10 Questions You Must Ask Before Implementing a Wiki #1

Ask yourself and your team the following questions before you start to implement a wiki, and be truthful with the answers.

Think about the issue you are trying to solve, and then see how a wiki might be applied, but remember don’t just focus on the positive, think about the potential down sides too.

1. What business issue is the wiki being used to resolve?

For any technology implementation to succeed, there needs to be a problem that it is trying to solve, or an operational efficiency to be gained. Think about why you are considering a wiki, do you have examples of wikis being used to address similar issues? Did they work? If so, why?