Image Credit: Reinbold, Ollie. Untitled sketch. 2025, pencils. The word “community” comes up a lot in my software consulting work. There are open-source communities. Developer communities. Platform communities. Increasingly, companies expect their employees to form Communities of Practice to solve their cross-silo dysfunction. You’ll find “community” on strategy decks, in job titles, and embedded in marketing copy. But when I work with software leaders on what that actually means an...
