# One Year Working with Guilds

DevFeed: [One Year Working with Guilds](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/one-year-working-with-guilds-28076.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://tech.trivago.com/post/one-year-working-with-guilds-lessons-learned/>)

Author: Tauan Zimmermann

Published: 2017-01-05T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Trivago](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/trivago.md>)

Topics: [knowledge-management](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/knowledge-management.md>), [Software Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software-engineering.md>), [Agile](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/agile.md>), [engineering-culture](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/engineering-culture.md>)

Tags: [best-practices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/best-practices.md>), [collaboration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/collaboration.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [engineering-culture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering-culture.md>), [knowledge-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/knowledge-management.md>), [product-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product-development.md>), [software-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-engineering.md>), [teams](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/teams.md>), [work](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/work.md>)

## AI overview

The article shares lessons from trivago's first year using guilds, or communities of practice, within its Software Engineering department. It explains how guilds help employees with similar expertise exchange knowledge, develop best practices, solve problems, and prevent knowledge silos across multidisciplinary teams.

## Source excerpt

It has been about a year since we introduce the idea of guilds in trivago Software Engineering department in Düsseldorf. Here we share some of our learnings with it.