Education Days, ShipIt Days, Internal Crowdfunding, Hack Days, Self-Education
Medieval Guilds, Community of Practice, Business Guilds
In different contexts, people use different names for (roughly) the same idea,
such as learning communities, tech clubs, centers of excellence, improvement
communities, professional associations, or simply user groups. They cover a knowledge domain, a
community of enthusiasts, and a set of tools and practices.
Business Huddles
Communities of practice are groups of people whose interdependent practice binds them into a collective of shared knowledge and common identity. […] When people work this way, barriers and boundaries between people and what they do are often insubstantial or irrelevant, since a collective endeavor holds people together. Seely Brown, “Complexity and Innovation”