Over the years, we've talked quite a bit about how to become a craftsman, exploring deeply how to progress from Apprentice to Master. What is often missing is any detail beyond the general thoughts that this is a Good Idea. Steve will share an approach, based on his experience of many years and many development organizations, to learning and career development for your team. This approach goes beyond the general ideas around Craftsmanship, but provides actual concrete areas of development. Unlike a formalized "skills checklist" we will apply a pattern language to help identify a continuum of growth for anyone's long term development.

We will discuss building understanding and building skills in the following areas:

Codecraft
Professional Skills
Process and Technical Ecosystems
Workflows
Tools

In this hands on workshop, teams (4-5) will use Product Chartering, Personas, Storymapping, and User Journeys along with Experience Tests to explore a product of their choice.

Along the way we will touch on how you blend architecture needs into this as well as chaos engineering - especially if the audience is more technical

The takeaways are hands on approaches to product discovery and how it blends into delivery

Whenever someone wants me to buy something expensive, they tell me to think of it as an investment. Over the years, when a business person heard about Craftsmanship or certain Technical Practices, they immediately heard the same argument about it being an investment. Lets look at it differently. Craftsmanship is not more expensive than "Just Get It Done" even if you ignore the long term investment aspects. By exploring where the technical practices come from, and how best to apply them, we can see that being the best isn't more expensive after all.