Real Work Workshop

The Real Work Workshop gives teams a chance to work with a deeply experienced instructor to get real work completed while learning valuable new skills.

Does your team have insufficient time for training because of too much work to do? This best-selling workshop has the answer: a way to get real work done all while learning valuable new skills.

During the workshop, our instructor collaborates with students to develop and refine an agenda, including clear objectives that may be demonstrated to stakeholders. Skills we commonly teach while doing "real work" include chartering, story writing and splitting, evolutionary design, microtesting, and test-driven development.

By the end of this workshop, you'll have real work completed, better trained staff, and a significantly improved ability to work effectively together.
This workshop is for whole teams actively working on products.
Real Work Workshop

Workshop Editions

Our online version of this workshop takes place over 5, 4-hour sessions. We can customize the sessions and schedule them to best meet your needs.

Each session is spent learning and then working. The instructor may pull in any number of interactive exercises to demonstrate concepts before the team works together in their development environment.
  • Team Introductions Exercise
  • What Works and What Needs Work?
  • Core Protocols
  • How To Mob
  • Slicing Stories
  • End-of-Day Retrospective
  • Group Decision Making
  • Lean Coffee
  • Continuous Integration
  • Refactoring
  • End-of-Day Retrospective
  • Microtesting
  • Test-Driven Development
  • End-of-Day Retrospective
  • User Testing and Feedback
  • BDD
  • Lean Coffee
  • End-of-Day Retrospective
  • Continuous Learning
  • Continuous Delivery
  • Working Through Technical and People Problems
  • End-of-Workshop Retrospective
Every day of this 5-day workshop is spent learning and working together. The instructor may pull in any number of interactive exercises to demonstrate key concepts before the team works together. We customize and refine the agenda to best meet your needs.
  • Team Introductions Exercise
  • What Works and What Needs Work?
  • Core Protocols
  • How To Mob
  • Slicing Stories
  • End-of-Day Retrospective
  • Group Decision Making
  • Lean Coffee
  • Continuous Integration
  • Refactoring
  • End-of-Day Retrospective
  • Microtesting
  • Test-Driven Development
  • End-of-Day Retrospective
  • User Testing and Feedback
  • BDD
  • Lean Coffee
  • End-of-Day Retrospective
  • Continuous Learning
  • Continuous Delivery
  • Working Through Technical and People Problems
  • End-of-Workshop Retrospective

What Will You Learn?

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Behavioral Skills: resources to deepen collaborative and teamwork skills

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Complete Real Work: measurable value delivered to production

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Technical Skills: deeper expertise through continuous learning and improvement

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Story Slicing: identifying thin “vertical slices” of behavior

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Bargain Hunting: discovering high value at low cost

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Evolutionary Design: practice and learn evolutionary design