Individual Case Study Report on Network Project Management (MN601)

This report analyzes the Federal Project and Program Management Community of Practice (FedPMCoP), addressing issues such as the lack of holistic policies, inadequate training, and the absence of a professional community. The report emphasizes the importance of tracking issues to foster opportunities in federal project management. It highlights the role of Communities of Practice (CoPs) in sharing expertise, identifying gaps, and promoting knowledge exchange. The report explains how CoPs function to provide practitioners with a platform for sharing best practices and support, thereby facilitating innovation and problem-solving. The FedPMCoP aims to enable information exchange, promote collaboration, and encourage the sharing of resources to address common challenges. The report also includes references to relevant sources.

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FedPMCoP (Federal Project and Program Management Community of Practice)
Executive Summary
FedPMCoP is a source for the groups of people centrally to share expertise of project and
program management across the federal government overall. The issues with this project
management community consists of no holistic policies and laws for program management, it
is not perceived as important to government success, performance and results, there is no
awareness to agency management about their responsibilities and roles in relation to projects
and programs of proper management. Moreover, there is an issue of inconsistency and
inadequacy while have training and development of project managers and program managers.
Lastly, one more issue is of no professionalism in the community of the program managers
and project managers of federal government1. It is essential to track issues for encouraging
opportunities in project management of Federal government. There is a presence of
professional community helps federal program and project managers for mentoring one
another and advocating for initiatives of professional development. The functions are
performed by the Council for providing a point to speak for issues affecting the company’s
program and project management development in the US federal government overall. CoPs
helps in identifying such issues or gaps in processes, tools, practices, and technologies along
with leveraging the community to look over the practices enhancement and uncovering
solutions2. Furthermore, CoPs encourages knowledge and experience sharing as well for
incorporating learned lessons into practice constantly and in actual time. Groups dealing with
issues in their daily processes with complexity require high CoP for their primary resource of
knowledge.
Community of practice (CoP)
Groups or individuals having common interest are organised as CoPs in terms of specific
business or technical domain. These groups share information, work actively, and improve
their skills on regular basis collaboratively for the advancement of general domain
knowledge. CoPs work together in small groups of individuals for a specific time person for
the development of common purpose sense along with a desire to share experience and work-
related knowledge through extensive communication. The purpose of CoP is to provide
practitioners a way to share best practices and tips along with providing support and asking
questions with each other3. In short, CoPs depicts the purpose of sharing interest area. CoPs

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provide opportunities and knowledge workers to experience mastery, autonomy, and purpose
over their day-to-day tasks at the active participation level. In case of FedPMCoP, the
purpose or goal provides information exchange from peer-to-peer so that no one can face the
need to “reinvent the wheel”, for paying off the benefits of members over their company, and
departments and agencies can be able to see commonalities while facing challenges and
sharing existing resources for confronting those challenges4. Thus, CoPs contributes towards
respecting each other’s unique growth capacity for the fulfilment of its purpose. There is a
clearly defines meeting place which is common for sharing information, and contributing and
discussion about the learning environment to enhance opportunities, problem solving and
promoting innovation and learning consistently.

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References
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[1] Bill Brantley. (2016, November) A Community of Practice on Government Program and
Project Management. [Online]. https://patimes.org/community-practice-government-
program-project-management/
[2] PMI. (2019) Federal Project and Program Management Community of Practice (FedPM
CoP) — How Sharing Best Practices Can Lead to Success. [Online].
https://www.pmi.org/-/media/pmi/documents/public/pdf/case-study/pmiaa-fedpmcop-
case-study.pdf?v=78fa879c-f7d1-44c4-a86a-6eb05bf1f8ba&sc_lang_temp=en
[3] Atieh Bourouni, Siamak Noori, and Mostafa Jafari, "Organizational groupings and
performance in project-based organizations," Aslib Journal of Information Management,
vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 156-174, 2014.
[4] Nicola Kelly, Andrew John Edkins, Hedley Smyth, and Efrosyni Konstantinou,
"Reinventing the role of the project manager in mobilising knowledge in construction,"
International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 654-673,
September 2013.
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