Remastering Guilds After Five Years
Five years ago trivago started to build guilds – small communities dedicated to certain topics or technologies – as a need arose to organize the collaboration of more than a hundred developers on a wide range of topics. You can read more about how we started in the previous blog posts Part I and Part II.
A lot has changed about trivago as an organisation as well as about the technologies we use for product development since our engineers started organising the first tech guilds years ago. We started with something like three tech guilds, and eventually ended up with over thirty guilds covering also non-tech topics. Throughout the years, some of them were more active than others.
Five years and more than thirty guilds later, we decided to review the way our guilds are organised and find out why some of them became inactive. As always, we’d like to share our learnings with you in the hope that you’ll find it helpful in your own team or company.