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Dojo Consortium Knowledge Base The Dojo Consortium was formed in 2018 by practitioners from several Fortune 100 Dojos. Dojos use immersive learning techniques to help teams improve their delivery outcomes in their context. This site is the knowledge base for things we have found effective for helping teams deliver sooner, safer, and happier while providing better outcomes for the organizations and the end-users.

Target introduces an innovative agile training ground for its employees

Most of our first two decades in life are spent learning. Or more precisely, learning how to learn. Joining the professional world, I had expected that learning would naturally be put aside while contributing took the lion's share. Of course, learning and contributing are not binary oppositions – we can always learn while making significant contributions. But when studying is no longer a full-time job, my concern is that without a deliberate mindset for learning, sooner or later the appetite and motivation for it fades away.

Where do Agile Dojos come from?  The larger your organization, the harder it can be for your Agile improvement efforts to succeed. At a time when global spending of the Fortune 500 was at its highest, one group found a pattern that worked.

Dojos are Japanese training spaces. Here's how applying dojo principles worked for one Thomson Reuters software team.

The Target Dojo provides an immersive learning environment for Product, Lean, Agile and DevOps. Sign up for a tour or learn about our coaching services.

Target introduces an innovative agile training ground for its employees

Many people are now moving into agile coach roles and looking for ways to improve their skills. In response to this demand, I've developed an Agile Coaching Skills workshop aimed at practicing agile coaches, to compliment my "Agile Coaching" book. If you're interested, the next public workshops are in London on September 15th and Belgium on 17th. Training can give us a boost but there are still gaps to be filled as we grow into a new role. We need a way for agile coaches to support their ongoing learning without relying on trainers (who are few and far between)....

In this blog, I will explain what an Agile coaching dojo is an activity where coaches gather together to practice their coaching skills.

Do you know the feeling when you come up with an idea, you get in love with it, you get super excited about it, you think you have…

Read the latest article from The Testing Planet "Part 2" of our Gaming and Testing series "Gamifying Your Workplace" by Melissa Eaden and Heather Reid

Read the latest article from The Testing Planet "Part 1" of our Gaming and Testing series "Gamifying Your Career" by Melissa Eaden and Heather Reid