My understanding of "guilds" is the notion of people coalescing around projects based on needs and interest vs a top down hierarchy. Like Valve vs Amazon, etc.

My understanding of "guilds" is the notion of people coalescing around projects based on needs and interest vs a top down hierarchy. Like Valve vs Amazon, etc. At a prior employer (~1000 person company) we used the word "guild" for a cross organizational team that are tackling a short term, low-medium value problem - with the notion you go back to your existing team when you're done. Or you handle 2x load while the guild work is necessary. These are similar to "tiger teams", but those are generally top down endeavors vs guilds are bottom up. Zappos tried this out a few years ago, so did some other well known tech co. though the name is escaping me right now. It seems to be called Holacracy and there's this webpage about it: https://www.holacracy.org/ https://www.holacracy.org/