The Dojo movement is growing in popularity as an approach that helps enterprises transform into world-class product development organizations. Dojos represent a departure from the classic agile focus on delivery, bringing learning and a product mindset to the forefront.

We'll share the emerging Dojo model by way of specific examples and mini-case studies. You will see how Dojos have taken shape at Fannie Mae and other large companies in the last several years. Think of this as a tour of the Dojo for two, main audiences: teams and leaders. Attendees will leave understanding how Dojos can benefit their group, portfolio, and/or organization.

As an industry, we’re not very good at managing tech debt. Yesterday's big balls of mud are likely to become tomorrow’s big buckets of glue. Wouldn’t it be nice if we had strategies that helped us to:

• Balance and evolve quality while delivering features?
• Pinpoint hotspots in code? At multiple levels of detail?
• Heighten situational awareness of system health and hygiene?
• Conduct data-driven, constructive critiques within our team?
• Automate (useful) measurement, putting quality gates in place to self-govern as a team?

In this talk, I’ll share my lightweight approach and toolchain for realizing these aspirations. Expect lots of tips and tricks for combating entropy in long-lived, software-intensive products shared by teams and large organizations by creating strategies and tactics that help visualize, prioritize, and manage digital product evolution.

How do you grow a continuously learning organization? If certifications and wikis were enough, organizations would be crushing it. In this session we look at how we learn in complex domains - focusing on tacit vs explicit knowledge; context learning; and growing coaches and teachers.

The Agile Manifesto says we value people and interactions over processes and tools. Yet when we talk about the agile methods, we usually end up talking about processes. Agilists use timeboxing as a forcing function to draw out resolutions and decisions. What if we just needed a better way to describe our needs and issues? What if we could actually be more effective with our communication? Join Robin Foster as he explores the relationships between learning, memory, communication, teaching, and the agile framework. Discover the cognitive science behind the process of learning new information, strategies for using different learning styles to grow your brain and its mastery of concepts, and how to map these strategies to phases in the agile cycle to benefit the team's cohesion and ability to self-organize. Agile is not meant to be rigid, so why should we be rigid in the way we share information with our team members?