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• 30 Jan 11
  

  Jared Bernotski

  The aim of this post is to illustrate the dynamics between a Community of Practice (CoPs) and a Team.

  communities_of_practice

• 27 Mar 09
  

  team community

  • Communities of Practice typically are a group of people coming together to share and learn about a common interest; as well as building a voluntary output of materials. These are usually not driven by management, instead participation is voluntary, and traditionally the goal is about learning and building capabilities rather than performing tasks.

  • Anyway here is a comparison in dynamics between Teams and CoPs.

                                             

    	Team	CoP
    Purpose	Achieve an outcome (task) or provide a service/product   Explicit processes/standards       Explicit timelines, tasks and goals	Shared area of interest    (organic growth)   Learning and sharing   (rather than completing a task)   No expected time limit
    Members	Defined roles   (but value team success)	Informal roles   (not all contributors)   Core group   (but people come and go)   Experienced members earn greater status
    Manage	Explicit leader or manager   (others on equal footing)	Community Coordinator   (others on equal footing)
    Participation	Required participation     Expected reciprocity   High interdependency   (can’t succeed without each other)	Encourage participation and enthusiasm   Power Law Distribution
• 23 Mar 09
  

  ITSS ClientSolutions

  article team community group communities_of_practice

• 15 Mar 09
  

  Greg Lloyd
  • What I’m often finding is that we have lots of requests by teams to use the CoP online tools as team spaces, in order to get work and tasks done. For more on this please refer to my past posts Team-based communities, Team-based communities are about change, commitment and tasks, Team-based communities : Transparency and Crowdsourcing for a more cohesive workplace    Team-based CoPs are not focused on learning, although this always occurs by default, but are more driven towards solving a problem, coordinating a task, etc…    A Team-based CoP may use the same tools, but will certainly have different dynamics to a cross-functional topic CoP.
• 14 Mar 09
  

  Harold Jarche

  The aim of this post is to illustrate the dynamics between a Community of Practice (CoPs) and a Team.

  communities

• 12 Mar 09
  

  Debra Beck

  communities_of_practice collaboration

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  Douglas Schultz

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  Tony Hirst

  "The aim of this post is to illustrate the dynamics between a Community of Practice (CoPs) and a Team."
  
  Includes a handy table comparing dynamics of a team and CoP along the axes: Purpose, members, management, participation.

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  Ted Louie

  Communities of Practice typically are a group of people coming together to share and learn about a common interest; as well as building a voluntary output of materials. These are usually not driven by management, instead participation is voluntary, and traditionally the goal is about learning and building capabilities rather than performing tasks.
  
  CoPs enable workers to be more effective and capable in their team tasks, by being able to discover people and form cross-functional groups to build their know-how on a topic. What is learnt in a CoP can be applied to tasks.

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  Nancy White

  communities_of_practice teams

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