Real Work Workshop

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.

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As a process specialist, Industrial Logic brings both the theory as well as practical experience with lots of real world examples. They're able to draw the connection between downstream impacts associated with upstream poor practices. Their eLearning materials are a great addition to the workshop labs often with an entertaining video to highlight the concepts in use.

Student, Bank of Montreal

I went into this workshop feeling hopeful but skeptical. By the middle of the second day, I could not believe what an impact the lessons had on the team! The "talking circle" game on the 3rd day morphed into more of a therapy session that really lifted off all of the remaining weight on the team's shoulders that we’d carried around for the past year. I could literally feel the team take its first breath together! Still makes me teary eyed to think about that! I have already raved about this workshop to co-workers and friends!! Thank you for making all of us awesome!

Student, Netflix

During the workshop, my teams worked together on existing code to put into practices the principles they learned each morning. The results were phenomenal! Our teams were able to find concrete ways to apply what they learned on our complex everyday scenarios. Having an expert guide the team through this learning set us up for success.

Student, Viacom

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.

Session 1: -

Team Introductions Exercise
What Works and What Needs Work?
Core Protocols
How To Mob
Slicing Stories
End-of-Day Retrospective

Session 2: +

Group Decision Making
Lean Coffee
Continuous Integration
Refactoring
End-of-Day Retrospective

Session 3: +

Microtesting
Test-Driven Development
End-of-Day Retrospective

Session 4: +

User Testing and Feedback
BDD
Lean Coffee
End-of-Day Retrospective

Session 5: +

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.

Typical Day 1: -

Team Introductions Exercise
What Works and What Needs Work?
Core Protocols
How To Mob
Slicing Stories
End-of-Day Retrospective

Typical Day 2: +

Group Decision Making
Lean Coffee
Continuous Integration
Refactoring
End-of-Day Retrospective

Typical Day 3: +

Microtesting
Test-Driven Development
End-of-Day Retrospective

Typical Day 4: +

User Testing and Feedback
BDD
Lean Coffee
End-of-Day Retrospective

Typical Day 5: +

Continuous Learning
Continuous Delivery
Working Through Technical and People Problems
End-of-Workshop Retrospective

What Will You Learn?

Behavioral Skills: resources to deepen collaborative and teamwork skills

Complete Real Work: measurable value delivered to production

Technical Skills: deeper expertise through continuous learning and improvement

Story Slicing: identifying thin “vertical slices” of behavior

Bargain Hunting: discovering high value at low cost

Evolutionary Design: practice and learn evolutionary design

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.