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Collaboration Terminology

 May 07, 2003
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In this post, I collect useful terms related to collaboration, and explain them. I plan to update it regularly as I come across new useful terms.

See also my paper on a Work Group Taxonomy that I posted earlier.

Term Explanation
Work Group A number of individuals coming together for a business purpose.
Social Group A number of individuals coming together without a business purpose.
Task Force A group that has a defined goal. Once that defined goal has been reached, the group is disbanded.
Standing Group A group with a purpose that is ongoing with no planned ending.
Team A group that works towards a common objective. This objective is typically measurable and agreed upon by all group members.
Community A group whose members do not work towards a common objective.
Collocated Group A group is collocated if its members are in sufficiently close physical proximity during the time of performing all group-related activities. We suggest that "sufficiently close" means that it is easier or quicker for the members of the group to interact with each other without an electronic communications device.
Virtual Group A group that is not collocated. Virtual groups necessarily depend on communication technology, such as the telephone, groupware, etc.
Chartered Group A group that has been given a charter from day one (typical by management).
Ad-Hoc Group A group that self-organizes, and has no explicit blessing "from above"
Synchronous interaction An interaction between group members is synchronous if it requires the participating group members to particate at the same time.
Asynchronous interaction An interaction between group members is asynchronous if it does not require the participating group members to particiate at the same time.
Blog, a.k.a Web Log An electronically accessible "virtual location" to which the Blog author regularly publishes information that has a chronological dimension. In the simplest form, a Blog consists of a series of time-ordered textual posts. Increasingly, more sophisticated Blogs stretch the definition of the term Blog.
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