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advances in CoP methodology is to take it from small-team interaction
to large-group intervention, although some dispute whether this can be
eectively done at all. ere have been some experiments where up to 300
people were brought together within a CoP to work through organiza-
tional issues. While it would be unusual for a soware engineering eort
to be of such proportions, it would not be out of the question to have to
develop a system where team members and stakeholders together came
close to this number.
ere are a variety of CoP-based designs for groups of this size. e
World Café is perhaps the most well known and popular of these designs,
which also includes Open Space Technolog ...