Assignment
Name Mansoor Ali (SP19 mbap-0093)
Course Knowledge Management
Submitted to Sir Farhan Bukhari
Communities of Practice (CoPs) are organized groups of people who have a
common interest in a specific technical or business domain. They collaborate
regularly to share information, improve their skills, and actively work on
advancing the general knowledge of the domain. Healthy CoPs have a culture
built on professional networking, personal relationships, shared knowledge, and
common skills. Combined with voluntary participation, CoPs provide knowledge
workers with opportunities to experience autonomy, mastery, and purpose
beyond their daily tasks on an Agile Release Train (ART) . CoPs enable
practitioners to exchange knowledge and skills with people across the entire
organization. This open membership offers access to a wide range of expertise to
help with technical challenges, fuel continuous improvement and allows more
meaningful contributions to the larger goals of the Enterprise. The result is that
organizations benefit from rapid problem-solving, improved quality, cooperation
across multiple domains, and increased retention of top talent.
Communities of practice are one of the main building blocks of a Knowledge
Management Framework. Communities of Practice are peer networks of
practitioners within an organization, who help each other perform better by
sharing their knowledge. For example, a Community of Practice might be set up
for electrical engineers, so that engineers can raise issues and problems, and see
if anyone in the community can provide insights and suggest solutions. Many of
the larger organisations have set up dozens of communities of practice, some of
which may have over a thousand members.
A company wishing to introduce communities of practice as a best practice
sharing mechanism needs to know where to start and how to start. Which
communities do you need to establish? How do you choose which communities to
promote? Do you only work with existing communities, or can you start off
communities in a particular knowledge area? All these questions should be
answered by your Knowledge Management Strategy.