Communities of practice

Communities of practice are groups of people working in the same field in government. They bring those people together to share ideas, show their work, solve problems and explore best practice.

Agile & Lean Community

The Agile & Lean Community is a open group for anyone interested in agile, lean, lean start-up, DevOps and more! It’s an open and safe space to connect with peers, share experiences, ask questions and help solve common problems.

Content Community of Practice

The Content Community of Practice is a place for government content specialists, practitioners and leaders to share ideas, solve problems, connect to peers and work in the open. 

Cross-Discipline Community of Practice

The Cross-Discipline Community of Practice is open to everyone. It’s a place for all people working in government, educational institutions and industry practitioners, leaders, or people interested in design for government to share ideas, solve problems, connect to peers and work in the open.

Cyber Security

The Cyber Security community is for Digital Profession members interested in Cyber Security.

Government Architecture community

This community is for government employees interested in government architecture. A shared understanding of government architecture and capabilities will improve collaboration and cross-disciplinary design, resulting in better government services. Join the Government Architecture community.

Life event communities (GovX)

The GovX life event communities bring people and organisations together to explore more ways to collaborate, design and prioritise delivery efforts based on the life events of people and their experience.

To join, you can either:

The communities are:

  • having a baby 
  • looking for work 
  • end of life 
  • becoming a carer 
  • accessing childcare.

Research and Design Community of Practice

The Design and Research Community of Practice is a place for all government practitioners, leaders, or people interested in design for government to share ideas, solve problems, connect to peers and work in the open.

P3M community

This community is for people involved in portfolio, program and project management (P3M) in any part of government in Australia.

Join the P3M community

Open data community

This community is for people who work with public data in the Australian Public Service or who carry out publicly funded research.

It's also for people who develop, innovate or carry out research using Australia’s public datasets.

Join the open data community

Visual Scribe (Graphic facilitation) 

The Visual Scribe community is here for Digital profession members interested in visual scribing and storytelling.

Get in touch

If you have any questions you can send an email to info@dta.gov.au or call 02 6120 8707.