Project structure discussion – Neos Sprint 2015 – Frankfurt

The Neos Project Neos Team
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Community Of Practice (COP)

  • COPs gather specialists of a certain field of expertise together
  • COPs combine the know-how of their participants so that the whole Neos project benefits from it
  • COP participants mentor and teach each other in order to upgrade the level of knowledge of the field of expertise in question
  • COPs are “self-built” based on the skills and interests of team and community members
  • one person can participate in multiple COPs
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  • COPs can be assigned task to evaluate certain approaches, tools etc
  • COPs can initate/prepare votings or make decicions on smaller matters
  • decicions have to be documented
  • COPs may be tasked to produce end-user documentation
  • meet regularly (team member participants keep track on active community members)
  • dedicated slack channels