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This is a presentation that Allison Pollard and I have been delivering because of our desire to see communities of practice flourish as vehicles for improvement
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Creating Strong and Passionate Communities
of Practice
Allison & Ty
Today’s Backlog
What do we mean by Community of Practice
How to get started
What to expect
?What is a Community of Practice?
A group of people with a common interest
A group of people with a common goal of
improving
A group of people who share experiences
Domain Community Practice
The First Agile Community of Practice…
What did the agile manifesto signatories want to do by gathering?
How to do work better…
Find out the things we have in common. Discover our strengths. Leverage our
skills.
What can we take away from them?
The Evolution of Communities of Practice
Center of Excellence
Product Based User Groups
Open Space
CoPs
CoP Events
Solve a problem
Workshop
Sage on stage
Collaboration
Presenters from outside our wheelhouse
Community presenters
Social Events
The Community Extends Outside of the Meeting
A lunch room conversation
Crowdsourcing your problem
Small Groups
Study Buddies
?Why Have a Community of Practice?
What does the individual receive?
What does the organization
receive?
What does the community
receive?
?Who is Your Community For?
Who is the target?
Who presents?
ScrumMasters Teams Managers Organizations
ACTIVITY
?What is Your Vision?
What makes this different from other groups?
What is your purpose? What do you do?
What state, context or situation is your target in?
ACTIVITY
?How are We Doing It?
I say that it's incredibly simple. Pick a date, a time, a location, and invite people.
- Allison Pollard http://www.allisonpollard.com
Don't give up too easily
Be happy with whoever shows up
Pick a good location
The invitation matters
?What Type of Space is Needed for the Community of Practice?
Modular, open space
Big open wall space
Great lighting
?How Much Does a Community of Practice Cost?
$$
D I S C
?What Type of People are Needed to Run a Community of Practice?
ENTJ Extraverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging
Sanguine Choleric
Melancholic Phlegmatic
The Four Temperaments
Myers-Briggs
Keirsey Temperament Sorter
Artisan Guardian
Idealist Rationalist
?What will the Community of Practice Need from Me?
It depends! What type of community of practice…
You may start with shadowing for ceremonies. Move on to cross team
facilitation.
You may start with TDD workshops. Move on to code katas.
Presentations Community Connections Workshops
You may start with sharing product walls. Move on to prioritization styles.
?What Other Things Can a Community of Practice Do?
C o P
Reveal organizational impediments
Guide the organization
Raise the overall ability of the organization
Now What? ?Possible futures
Stuff that needs doing
People to serve
What types of people are
needed
?How Do We Create a Backlog?
Backlog Doing Done
Value Stream
Don’t make long term plans
Reprioritize or recreate the backlog every 6 months
Maybe 3 months
Try a Lean Coffee!
http://leancoffee.org
Did It Work? ?They stayed
after the meeting
They stayed until the end
They showed up
Lifecycle of a Community of Practice
Freshman
Sophomore
Senior
Addressing the needs of the individual who actively seek out the community
Addressing the issues of the organization(s) that it exists within
Addressing the issues of the greater community that its domain caters to
Community Growth PatternAgile Practice
Technical ExcellenceProduct Management Scrum Master, Coaches
PO, BA, PM, UX QA, Automation, UX, Architecture, XP, Specific Languages: .NET, Java, Cobol, Fortran, Pascal
Frameworks: Scrum, Lean, Kanban; Coaching/Mentoring,
Facilitation, Training, Tools
Locations
Resources
Agile Leadership Network
PMI - Agile Community of
PracticeScrum Alliance
Allison [email protected]@allison_pollard
Servant Husband
Father Ally
Artist
Agilist
Gamer
Scrum Master
[email protected]@TTcrockeTT
Agile CoachScrum Master
Project Manager
Glasses WearerTheta Tau Fraternity Member
