Posted by Jeffery Bridges on June 01, 2001 at 18:22:50:

In Reply to: A couple additional thoughts posted by Bill Bruck on June 01, 2001 at 08:27:14:

Thank you for your insightful observation of the contrast. I believe there is a grey area between CoPs and formal organizational virtual teams. This grey ara contains CoPs such as those developing most open source software solutions and packages, pre-formalization Linux being one of them. Other most commonly known Web platforms such as Apache, FreeBSD and MySQL are all products of virtual CoPs that often have discrete deliverables and often they are able to deliver such deliverables on specific timelines (sometimes even better than 'formal teams', virtual or non-virtual). Similarly, such goal-oriented and 'purposeful' CoPs may also have self-selected or assigned roles, responsibilities, charters, etc.

I saw some earlier discussion threads in the archives that relate to the contrast shown above between formal teams and less formal virtual CoPs that behave like teams. Here is a search on some of those discussions:

Contrast Between Formal Teams and Virtual Communities of Practice

http://www.brint.com/cgi-bin/tank.cgi?PA=Teams+and+Communities

• Contrast Between Formal Teams and Virtual Communities of Practice

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