This from the design community I have been working with at HM Land Registry View story at Medium.com
How DWP Digital’s delivery community comes together to share knowledge
I went to speak at the DWP delivery community day a few months ago (mainly about silos and the agile team onion), here is a bit more on that from some folk who were there. https://dwpdigital.blog.gov.uk/2018/05/18/how-dwp-digitals-delivery-community-comes-together-to-share-knowledge/
Building a business analyst community
Hayley Goldthorpe, DWP, Leeds Head Office CMEC, reveals how they went about building a business analyst community within the Department of Work and Pensions, one of the communities I helped in their very early days https://www.bcs.org/content/conWebDoc/59113
Communities of practice posters at Defra
Lovely to see these posters appear since spending my time with Defra getting their communities of practice up and running. These are to help encourage, promote and make communities of practice a normal and accepted part of life at Defra.Read more…
Something to give, something to gain
This post from a member of the delivery manager community of practice at Defra. This post is a year after the community officially kicked off. It’s a reminder that although it takes time to build communities it is worth theRead more…
Take time to take part in Communities of Practice
This post from the Chief Digital Officers at Defra was a rally to get people involved in communities of practice if they weren’t already and to give permission for people to take the time to dedicate to them. It’s greatRead more…
Making better, joined-up decisions with the Co-op engineering community
Making better, joined-up decisions with the engineering community
How communites of practice are making a difference at Defra
Following on from my initial blog post, here is how communities of practice have been making a difference at Defra How communities make a difference
Learning, sharing, teaching — the story of a community member
View story at Medium.com
To Build a Strong Community, stop “Community Managing”, be a Tummler Instead
https://dangerouslyawesome.com/2014/04/community-management-tummling-a-tale-of-two-mindsets/
The difference between Communities, Groups, and Networks
The difference between Communities, Groups, and Networks
The importance of having a safe place to listen and learn
6 months ago I went into coop Digital to help the delivery manager community get started. Here they are posted about what they have recently been up to The importance of having a safe place to listen and learn
Setting up communities of practice at Defra
I’m currently working with Defra to set up communities of practice, here is more on that https://defradigital.blog.gov.uk/2016/09/29/how-communities-of-practice-will-help-to-transform-defra/
DWP BA community – BA awareness week
I worked with the BA community at DWP through a few workshops and they have really run with it, it’s great to see the gem of ideas start and turn into something that adds such value to the community andRead more…
Deliberate Practice and Digital Literacies
Some thoughts on the meaning of deliberate pracitce View story at Medium.com
The GDS verify technical team working together through group learning
A blog post from the verify team at GDS about learning as a group and tools that helped them.
The BA community of practice at DWP
This year I have been working with DWP on building their communities of practice, here are some thoughts from one of their members.
Setting up communities of practice at co-op
Recently I helped the co-op digital team with their delivery manager community of practice. Here is a post from them about how it’s going.
Communities of Practice: The Missing Piece of Your Agile Organisation
A post from me over on infoq
Tools to keep the community conversation going?
Face to face is the best way for any group of people to communicate for many reasons that I won’t go into right now, but communities also need ways in which to continue the conversation outside of the time that they spendRead more…
Communities of people inspiring each other
A blog post from Jock Busuttil on why the community leader role is helping the community to establish itself rather than leading it. Communities of people inspiring each other
Breaking Down Udemy’s Model for Tracking the ROI of Community
Breaking Down Udemy’s Model for Tracking the ROI of Community
Community survey #1
A survey for people in a community of practiceRead more…
Book review #1
“A comprehensive introduction to the issues worth considering when setting up, growing and maintaining a community of practice in an organisation. Emily provides the theory and many practical examples from her own extensive experience. I enjoyed the focus on learningRead more…
Communities of practice and budgets for learning
In my book and often when I speak on the topic of communities of practice, I say that they need organisational support. This support comes in the form of, time for community members to dedicate to the community; people to support the development ofRead more…
Quote: What is a Community of Practice?
Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly. – Wenger-trayner
Using Agile to write a book
The book was written using an Agile approach and is the first iteration of an ongoing project. To find out more see my blog post on my agile blog.
Buy the book
Reviews “A good book to read for all, whether you’re part of a community, a seasoned community leader or someone new to the role. It’s also good for people in roles (like operations or finance) that support communities from theRead more…