COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE AS A COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE FRAMEWORK IN WORKPLACE ENVIRONMENT OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
Wiku Sidik Dananjaya- Yusfia Hafid Aristyagama,S.T.,M.T.-Cucuk Wawan Budiyanto,S.T.,Ph.D.

Informatics & Computer Engineering Education, Sebelas Maret University

Abstract

The usage of Community of Practice (CoP) has been widely spread and has been progressed over time. The progressing of CoP need to be able to align with the rapidly progressive social, culture, and knowledge, especially in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) fields. This paper discuss about the example of CoP implementation in workplace environment, Community of Practice implementation in ICT related environment, advantages and disadvantages of CoP, and summarize the CoP success factors as a community development and maintenance framework. This paper will conduct a Systematic Literature Review on Community of Practice related articles and literatures published between 2012 to 2023 and followed the PRISMA approach. This paper summarize the CoP advantages: capability to share knowledge, friendly and supportive environment, and responsive toward customers^ demand, collaboration and discussion, facilitate multi diciplinary learning, encourage observing, understanding, analyzing, and evaluating, potential link to workplace environment, easier to communicate. Meanwhile, CoP disadvantages are various barriers among members, narcissism and selfishness, individual beliefs, knowledge monopolies, the feeling of exclusivity. CoP success factors are gathered and summarized from various literatures. This paper conclude that CoP can be developed more further along with the development of social and knowledge, and success factors as framework for maintain the continuity of CoP need to align with community background, community goals, and community focus of diciplines.

Keywords: Community of Practice, Software Developer, Workplace Environment

Topic: Technology in Education