Communities of Practice – the Not-So-Hidden Force in Your Organization
summary
How Ericsson’s Aachen center used Communities of Practice (CoPs) to scale Agile and promote large-scale self-organization by empowering employees. The talk describes concrete CoP initiatives—driving Kaizen, T-shaped skills, DevOps and supporting areas like 5G research and security—explains how those CoPs formed, why they succeeded, and how they changed growth and adoption of new methodologies in a large telecom company.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 5:18What are communities of practice
- 12:25Communities at Ericsson
- 21:23Case study: Patito community
- 27:45Creating effective communities
- 39:53Leadership support
- 46:17Lessons learned & Q&A
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