# Team Work Made Simple with Guilds

DevFeed: [Team Work Made Simple with Guilds](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/team-work-made-simple-with-guilds-27942.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://tech.trivago.com/post/2016-03-24-team-work-made-simple-with-guilds/>)

Author: Tauan Zimmermann

Published: 2016-03-24T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [engineering-culture](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/engineering-culture.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Web Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-development.md>), [Back end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/backend.md>)

Tags: [collaboration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/collaboration.md>), [engineering-culture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering-culture.md>), [product-owner](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product-owner.md>), [scrum](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scrum.md>), [team-work](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/team-work.md>), [teams](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/teams.md>)

## AI overview

trivago describes adopting guilds to improve collaboration and decision-making among more than one hundred developers across PHP, JavaScript, and UI/UX. The article explains why its previous frontend/backend structure was insufficient and how guilds complement Scrum teams by focusing on how product development is supported.

## Source excerpt

How can we organize the collaboration of more than a hundred developers on a wide range of topics? How could they decide about good practices in the company? Those are some questions that drove trivago to give it a try on a different structure: the guilds.