ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how communities of practice (CoPs), forums and formal/informal networks can operate to help organisations and individual practitioners develop their project management capability. lt explains how these groups can be set up and describes the form and structure they should take and their benefits. The traditional route to developing and demonstrating project management capability is through formal training and accreditation. However, it is now clearly demonstrated in the field of learning and knowledge management that most development of capability does not take place in the classroom or in front of a textbook. Rather our capability develops through the practice of doing the job and learning from our colleagues. The concept of CoPs recognises this reality about the way our capability develops and seeks to capitalise on it. CoPs consciously encourage and strengthen peer to peer learning.
