Craig is at YOW! Conference and spends some time with Emily Webber, Agile Coach and author of “Building Successful Communities of Practice” and “The Agile Team Onion” and they chat about:

• The UK Government Digital Service and gov.uk (and the United States Digital Service and Australian Digital Transformation Agency)
• Government needs to be fast and stable (but dealing with change every four years)
• YOW! 2016 talk “Communities of Practice: The Missing Piece of your Agile Organisation“
• Communities of practice are about building knowledge, giving people support networks they need to give them the confidence to do their jobs well and making that practice better and as good as it can be
• Most communities of practice are organic but they tend to be closed and often lack direction
• Community of Practice Maturity Model
• Having an idea of who the community is for and why it is exists, get people together and regular diary times are essential
• Distributed communities work but face to face is always best because it builds trust faster
• Agile Team Onion is all about communication and thinking about the Agile team and about how you pragmatically communicate with the rest of the organisation – a modern day RACI
• The word agile means a lot of things to a lot of people that frightens them – how do we take a step to making things better without shoving it down their throat
• “Messy” by Tim Harford
• Woody Zuill’s talk “Mob Programming, A Whole Team Approach“
• London Shop Fronts

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