Skills & Education

Skills & Education represent, in addition to the three main areas of Market & Business. Processes & Infrastructure, Technology & Architecture, a fourth orthogonal area in the P4 framework, which deals with the exchange of experience, learning and methods and tools of  special knowledge and experience practices. There can be a separate Community-of-Practice for each of these practices .

These issues are potentially neglected in the interdisciplinary teams, since the experts or interested parties are located in different teams.

Typical practices are the following:

  • Requirements engineering
  • Test management and test development
  • Mechanical development, procedures and MCAD tools
  • Electronic engineer and ECAD tools
  • Simulations

but also

  • Cloud technologies
  • Methodology and didactics for trainers
  • SAP gurus
  • IT in the organization
  • Moderation techniques

Within the P4 areas, the corresponding groups at the Cluster level (Team Scrum Master Group, Team Product Owner Group, Team System Engineer Group), as well as at the Organizational level, have their tasks in addition to their content assignment to take care of typical pratice topics, such as exchange of experience, further training and tools. However, it may make sense to treat some of these topics within a Community-of-Practice in order to make them accessible to a larger group. So, the topic “Requirements Engineering” is certainly not only important for Product Owners.

Practices can be established for any additional “skills” and “disciplines” required.

Self-organization of the practice community

For a CoP foundation, it is sufficient that at least three people are interested in a topic and want to invest their “practice time” for it. A CoP requires a mission in which the self-image is described and a Practice Backlog in which all topics that are important to the CoP end up. The topics are worked on together, either using Scrum, if the majority of the topics can be planned; using Kanban if the topics arise rather ad hoc.

If there is no longer sufficient interest in the CoP, i.e. if fewer than three people have an interest in it, the CoP is frozen or ended.

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Further suitable links:

Events Roles Groups Artifacts
Practice Time Practice Lead Community of Practice