BijouWilliams

Hi Jono! I've had the position of Community Manager thrust upon me just this month at my patient advocacy startup, and I've been frantically reading The Art of Community for inspiration. I'm not working with any software development, but your ideas translate nicely. In your book, you suggest an early step to building a community is identifying how a community can be subdivided into teams. At this point, my company has maybe 5 contributors, but hope for many more. I guess that I could come up with 3-4 likely teams/specialties at this point, but I'm worried about being too rigid and stifling nascent creativity and collaboration. At this early stage, would you generally recommend making up experimental teams just to get the whole idea of teams out there and then set up better/permanent teams later? Or leave everyone on one team until specialties further emerge? I'm also open to other options I haven't yet considered ^{_^}
Thanks!!!

Thanks for your answer! Building out robust communications channels is my goal for January - keeping everyone involved in the discussions sure doesn't happen on its own.