Communities of Practice

• Learn while doing;
• Ensure effective creating and sharing of knowledge and experience;
• Co-learn about related practices across projects;

Step by Step

1. Creation:
   • Decide what topic you wish to address in a community in order to identify the domain. Pick a compelling topic that will be of interest to many people in your organization, will be relevant to their work and will build on the core values of the organization. The potential members must be passionate about the subject for collaboration and the domain can itself invite involvement.
   • Start a discussion on a domain or a smal problem and raise ideas for resolving this problem.
   • Find a committed leader or coordinator for the community. Volunteer to be the community leader, or identify someone else with the right attributes and well-respected. The community leader should know the subject, have energy for stimulating collaboration, have sufficient time to devote to leadership, and then regularly spend time increasing membership, lining up speakers, hosting calls and meetings, asking and answering questions, and posting information which is useful to the members.