Scaled collaboration models (Communities of Practice, chapters, guilds)
Communities of practice, chapters, and guilds add horizontal structures connecting people across autonomous teams to coordinate standards and practice, leaving task to executor assignment and incentives unaddressed.
Lave and Wenger; Wenger, McDermott, and Snyder; Spotify's Kniberg and Ivarsson for chapters and guilds, 1991
The origin of the framework, as the directory records it. The mark grades the origin, not this page.
Umbrex, Scaled collaboration models (Communities of Practice, chapters, guilds)
The directory entry this score was read from. Umbrex is a consultancy network; its summary is the reference, not a primary source.
Scored against the twelve cells, it loads two: Structure and Coordination. The other ten it leaves to you. None of Composition, Evidence, or Mastery is among them, which is the usual result in this directory: the questions an agent in the loop raises first are the ones the literature answers least.
This is not a summary of the framework. Umbrex has one; the link under Sources goes there.
What is the smallest unit that can own a customer outcome end to end?
What synchronizes the work when there is no room and half the team is not a person?