Tracy Buckner (She/Her/Hers)

264 points

Raleigh, NC

Tracy is a Senior Community Architect in the Open Source Program Office (OSPO) at Red Hat. She focuses on enablement and training and evangelizing the power of community. She is passionate about bringing business and technology together in creative ways to encourage full-circle feedback, transparency, and open communication. She is a logophile and a philomath and in her spare time enjoys writing both fiction and non-fiction.

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Authored Content

3 mistakes to avoid when learning to code in Python

Building a community of practice in 5 steps

A community of practice can kickstart innovation in your organization. Here's how to build one—and ensure it thrives.

What communities of practice can do for your organization

In open organizations, fostering passionate communities can increase collaboration, accelerate problem solving, and lead to greater innovation.

Open community, gardeners and food co-op

What is a community of practice in an open organization?

If organizational silos are slowing your teams down, consider building communities of practice to supercharge collaboration.

Publisher's picks: Top 2016 open source books

Do you speak the same language as the rest of your team?

A shared, common language is essential for open teams of all sizes. It's time to codify your vocabulary.

A guide to packing and preparing for a tech conference

3 steps to reduce a project's failure rate

Transparent and inclusive project requirements can reduce your rate of failure. Here's how to gather them collaboratively.

leadership through influence poster in a classroom with a teacher and students

3 skills a successful business analyst needs

Business analysts are important interfaces between industry and the organization. They do their best work when they operate openly.

Contributed Content

5 stories about open principles changing organizations in 2020

Open principles are reshaping our organizations. These stories—our most-read of the year—explain how and why that's happening.

Authored Comments

TracyB

26 Feb 2020

Building a community of practice in 5 steps

This is a great observation. I find that I have to always explain what is meant by "Community of Practice". Once it is explained, however, the phrase seems to fit well with the purpose and intent of the community. I also agree reducing jargon should always be a goal when communicating in (or out) of communities to improve understanding and transparency.

TracyB

26 Feb 2020

Building a community of practice in 5 steps

Thank you so much! Please let me know if there are specific topics about communities that you would like to hear more about.