“Community of Practice” means a collaborative group of experts and stakeholders within a particular area of state government operation or functionality that come together on a sustained basis to develop a shared understanding and common enterprise approach to continuous improvement.
CIO Council Communities of Practice are an extension of and analogous to the concept of Domain Teams authorized by the State IT Governance Policy (pdf). As such, Communities of Practice are also formed to assist the Department of Administrative Services and the State CIO in fulfilling requirements for collaborative planning described in ORS 184.473 through 184.477, 291.016, 291.018, 291.028, 291.032, 291.034, 291.037, and 291.038.
These guidelines (pdf) are intended to establish a common set of practices in support of the CIO Council’s evolving concept of Communities of Practice.
