What is Dojo? The term means ‘place of the Way’ in Japanese. The concept has been traditionally applied in the field of martial arts and meditation, and with the constant changes to modern technology the concept has been increasingly adopted in the field of software development.

Coding Dojos are a powerful vehicle to accelerate the team’s transformation and lead their way to becoming a stronger product team. As in Dojo for martial arts, the students are instructed by teachers to achieve a skill mastery; the similar is how a coding Dojo is set up! The teams work with Product and Technical coaches for six weeks where they are coached on Lean, Agile, Product Mindset and Software Engineering practices while working on their actual backlogs. Teams develop long-lasting skills through repetition and deliberate practice during short, hyper-iterations.

The quote from Xun Kuang best describes the essence of Immersive Learning: “Tell me and I will forget. Teach me and I will remember. Involve me and I will learn.”

Establishing Dojos at my firm has been my goal from the past couple of years where I served as a Product Coach. In this time, I have coached over 15 teams and shared the transformational journey of our teams at many platforms including external presentations at conferences like AgileDC 2019. And I bring all that learning to this meetup to share with you. During this session, we will explore the Coding Dojo’s in detail, core principles, the flow, outcome, and much more! Key outcomes of this session:

What is coding Dojo

How does it work

What are Hyper-Iterations

How did it help transform teams

Does it support today’s needs?

Remote Dojo?