Practice

Practice can be developed when the community keeps continuous interactions with the domain. The members of the community of practices are the practitioners. They will have a shared stock of the resources which includes the experiences, the stories, the tools and also the ways of addressing  the  recurring  problems.  Thus,  a  community  can  become proactive  by  taking  charge  of  the  development  of  the  practice.  The questions,  which  will  help  the  community  to  intentionally  become  an effective knowledge resource to the members and also to  other constituencies which might benefit from the expertise, are as follows:

• What knowledge has to be shared, developed in the document?
• What kind of learning activities to organise?
• How the knowledge repository should be organised to reflect the practice of the members?
• When should the processes be standarised and when are the differences appropriate?
• What kind of development project should the community undertake?