Hi Everyone,

I am working to get a COP established within my company.  I was wondering if anyone has any templates for charters that they would be willing to share?  I've pulled the template from the AQPC site, but wanting to see if anyone had one that was really helpful in getting a COP started with clear goals and guidelines.

Thanks,

mike

• https://groups.io/g/SIKM/topic/35638745#4276
• https://groups.io/g/SIKM/topic/35636018#396

• Template_Charter_Community_of_Practice_2.2015.pdf 
• SI+KM+Leaders+Boston+Charter+Strawman+091009.doc 

• https://www.nickols.us/CoPOverview.pdf
• https://www.apqc.org/resource-library/resource-listing/community-practice-charter-template
• http://web.archive.org/web/20090415101345/http://ck2c.wikispaces.com/Community_Charter
• https://confluence.hl7.org/display/COD/Community+of+Practice+Charter
• https://www.cdc.gov/phcommunities/docs/Plan_CoP_Charter_Template.doc

Excerpt from my forthcoming book

A community charter is a document that defines the scope, objectives, and participants in a community. It explains the community’s purpose and benefits, identifies preliminary roles and responsibilities, and provides strategies and measurements to support community success.

Identifying the objectives for a community before creating it is always a good idea. Writing a community charter makes those objectives explicit and adds other important information. Having to commit these details to writing helps those launching the community to think through important concepts and make key decisions before the community goes live.

Working with the community sponsor, community manager, and a facilitator, the community champions and potential initial members should create a community charter. Doing this in a facilitated workshop will help community members come together quickly, focused on a finite, common task. The charter can be discussed, modified, agreed to, and posted on the community site.

Here is a template that can be used or adapted to create a community charter:

1. Community Name (Identify the name of the Community, e.g., Project Management Community of Practice.)
2. Community Audience (Identify the types of members the community is targeting or is trying to attract, e.g., project managers, program managers, and project administrators.)
3. Community Purpose (Identify the intent of the community, e.g., the community is focused on documenting, sharing, and transferring project management lessons learned and proven practices.)
4. Type of Community (Identify the community type, e.g., role-specific community of practice.)
5. Community Objectives (Identify the short-term and long-term goals for the community, e.g., short-term: hold monthly lessons learned sharing sessions; long-term: routinely reuse proven practices on all new projects.)
6. Critical Business Issues (Identify the challenges the community will address.)
7. Tools and Activities (Identify the tools and activities that will be used to support the community, e.g., Site, Calendar, Events, News, Threads,)
8. Measures of Success (List measures of success, e.g., Activity, Content, Membership, Events.)
9. Community Roles (Identify by name the individuals who are filling key roles.)

• Community Sponsor:
• Community Manager:
• Community Champions:

There have been great resources shared in this thread.  I have had added the following to the KM Collection

- SIKM Charter (Kate)
- ABC Charter Examples (Dan)
- NASA example (Doug)
- Stan's post with several links (Stan)

Here is a public link to the Community of Practice section of the KM Collection.
Anyone who has registered on the KM Collection and has installed the browser extension will be able to easily find these materials when searching on the internet.

Tom