TechValidate Research on Stack Overflow for Teams


Stack Overflow for Teams Case Study

Golem Factory

Introduction

This case study of Golem Factory is based on a November 2021 survey of Stack Overflow for Teams customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Challenges

The profiled company brought in Stack Overflow for Teams to improve their business KPIs of service quality, organizational effectiveness, and customer value.

The other challenges they wanted to solve were:

  • Creating or maintaining a continuous learning culture
  • Enabling employees to solve problems faster
  • Reducing the time to onboard new hires
  • Supporting Innersource/Open Source initiatives
  • Capturing institutional knowledge

Use Case

They use the free tier of Stack Overflow for Teams.

Their analytics/business intelligence, IT, support, marketing, product, and operation teams are the main users of Stack Overflow for Teams.

The other tools they use for knowledge sharing are:

  • ChatOps (e.g., Slack or Microsoft Teams)
  • Document management platform
  • Cloud drive

Results

The surveyed company said the most impactful operational benefits their organization realized with Stack Overflow for Teams was increased discoverability of documentation and expertise.

They said the most impactful cultural or team benefits their organization realized with Stack Overflow for Teams are:

  • Increased collaboration between and among teams
  • More knowledge is captured for the future
  • Increased peer-to-peer support
  • Prevented knowledge loss when teammates left
  • Increased transparency of knowledge and information
  • Individuals having more opportunities to learn
  • Individuals having more opportunities to mentor
  • Increased ability to stay in the flow and complete work




About This Data

This data was sourced directly from verified users of Stack Overflow for Teams by TechValidate.

TechValidate verifies the identity and organizational affiliation of all participants that contribute to published research data. When research participants so desire, we also guarantee their anonymity so that they may share information honestly and freely.


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