Spotify Guild

References

(Šmite et al., 2020) ⇒ Darja Šmite, Nils B. Moe, Marcin Floryan, Georgiana Levinta, and Panagiota Chatzipetrou. "Spotify guilds." In: Communications of the ACM February 2020 https://doi.org/10.1145/3343146
- QUOTE: A community of practice (CoP) is usually a group of people with similar skills and interests who share knowledge, make joint decisions, solve problems together, and improve a practice.12 Communities of practice are cultivated for their potential to influence the knowledge culture5,6,7 and bring value for individuals, teams, projects, and organization as the whole. Knowledge exchange in CoPs is enabled through various forms of scheduled and unscheduled social interaction, such as hallway and water-cooler conversations, meetings and conferences, brown bag lunches, newsletters, teleconferences, shared Web spaces, email lists, discussion forums, and synchronous chats.6 Activity repertoires in different CoPs may differ significantly.11

(Kniberg & Ivarsson, 2012) ⇒ Henrik Kniberg, and Anders Ivarsson. (2012). “Scaling Agile@ Spotify.” Blog Post
- QUOTE: ... A Guild is a more organic and wide-reaching “community of interest”, a group of people that want to share knowledge, tools, code, and practices. Chapters are always local to a Tribe, while a guild usually cuts across the whole organization. Some examples are: the web technology guild, the tester guild, the agile coach guild, etc. A guild often includes all the chapters working in that area and their ...