A year-long intensive training for everyone who wants to make an impact.
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The harder the training, the easier the battle
Books and videos won't make you a master. Key skills need to be practiced regularly.
12x Dōjō sessions. In person.
Every third Thursday
Through role-playing, you will experience challenging situations and practice how to handle them in a safe environment.
Immediate application in practice.
In your organization
What you learn, you immediately put into practice. You won't be learning knowledge for the drawer, but how to make an impact in the organization.
Reflection and sharing. With the community.
Successes and failures
Share with others, get feedback and inspiration from the trainer and especially from other Scrum Masters. We grow together.
The world needs agility more than ever
But it expects Scrum Masters to have an impact on organizational agility. Working at the team level is not enough.
Dōjō is a Japanese martial arts gym where you go to sweat. Where you practice specific techniques. Regularly, long-term, so you can fully master them.
We will focus on three key competencies
Making an impact means being a partner not just to teams, but mainly to leadership. These competencies help us the most.
Organizational Design
Break free from scaling frameworks. Learn to think in organizational patterns.
Systems Thinking
Look at the organization as a living organism. Explore the root causes of dysfunction together with management.
Advanced Facilitation
Strengthen your facilitation skills. Handle meetings with strong personalities and strong opinions.
The path to end-to-end teams
Closing keynote at the inAgile 2024 Conference
June 2024
37 min
Czech
Throughout the program, we will walk the path to end-to-end teams together.
- Dysfunction of narrowly specialized teams
- Product definition
- Self-design of end-to-end teams around a broad product definition
Watch the talk and get a preview of what awaits you.
What you will learn
Scrum Master Dōjō topics build on each other and form a coherent story
Fall trimester
October-December
Winter trimester
January-March
Spring trimester
April-June
Team responsibility, collaboration and decision-making
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Strengthen your facilitation foundations
Through role-playing exercises, you will experience a range of facilitation techniques and Liberating Structures. In the role of participant, facilitator or observer.
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Visual facilitation
The ability to visualize conversation, ideas and proposals is key to effective group decision-making. You will learn to
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Refinement and slicing
You will try out several refinement formats, including multi-team refinement, and you'll be surprised how many things then suddenly "just work" when refinement is done well.
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Estimation and planning
Refresh your knowledge of well-known and lesser-known estimation techniques. Uncover various psychological biases. Recognize which technique to use for which occasion.
The team in the context of product and organization
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How to face delivery pressure?
You will explore how innocent estimates become deadlines and where the ever-present delivery pressure comes from. You will learn to uncover the contract game and work on eliminating it.
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Advanced facilitation
You will experience and learn to handle challenging (and very challenging) situations: misaligned expectations, conflicts of interest, clashes of strong personalities, unsolvable problems, reluctance to decide on anything.
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Systems Thinking
By modeling the organizational system, you will learn to uncover the causes of organizational dysfunction together with management. Decision-making about necessary changes will then be more informed and easier.
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Multi-team collaboration
You will experience multi-team quarterly planning and explore how different organizational models affect mutual collaboration, the contract game and organizational agility.
The path to end-to-end teams
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Local vs global optimization
You will start to see the organization as a living system and track effectiveness and agility at the product and organization level. (Your world will never be the same again.)
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Scrum Master as a political role
More fundamental organizational changes can't just be "explained." You will learn to recognize hidden interests, find allies, and pick your battles.
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Organizing teams around products
Product definition → customer-centric product backlog → end-to-end product teams. You will experience team self-design, where specialized teams transform into end-to-end teams.
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Coaching end-to-end teams
Leading teams from application ownership to product ownership. Developing single-specialists into multi-specialists. Organizational changes towards an agile product organization.
How the program works
Regular half-day Dōjō sessions
Every three weeks on Thursday afternoon, we meet in the dōjō, where we will practice intensively together.
Our goal won't be to overwhelm you with a thousand and one techniques and methodologies. We will go in depth with the topics. You will have time to experience, practice, reflect, share and thoroughly understand everything.
The exercises will be much more intensive than what you're used to from typical "experiential" workshops. You will sweat. You will step out of your comfort zone, delve into the dark corners of your inner self, and question everything you knew before.
You can only fight the way you practice.
Putting new concepts into practice
Towards the end of the dōjō session, you will choose a personalized "homework assignment." It could be:
- Facilitating a new technique in your organization
- System modeling with your leadership to identify dysfunctions and areas for improvement
- Observing, studying or implementing an organizational pattern in your organization
- Pointing out potential inefficiencies in your team structure
- etc.
I can show you the path but I can not walk it for you.
Throughout the program, you will stay in touch with the trainer and other participants on ScrumDōjō Discord.
Reflection and sharing with the community
From your practice, you will prepare a summary of your experiences that you can share with other participants at the next dōjō session. It doesn't matter how it turned out, but what you learned.
It can be a poster, a blog post, a short video or a brief presentation.
Good judgement is the result of experience, and experience the result of bad judgement.
Sharing at least 6 of your specific experiences with the broader community (e.g. social media or meetups) will be recognized with the certificate 努力賞 Doryokushō For persistent effort.
What is included in the program
- 12x half-day dōjō sessions
- workbook with materials and exercises
- access to ScrumDojo Discord, where you stay in touch with other participants and trainers
- all materials and recordings from dōjō sessions
- one of three certificates upon completing the program:
- 参加賞 Sankashō for regular attendance
- 努力賞 Doryokushō for persistent effort
- 優秀賞 Yūshūshō for outstanding performance
Dates
There are currently no dates scheduled for this course.
Group discounts
MoreIf you register more participants for the same date, we offer group discounts (from the total price valid on the day of registration):
- 10% discount for 2-3 participants
- 20% discount for 4+ participants
Dōjō kun 道場訓
Rules of the Dōjō
- Be humble and polite.
- Practice diligently and creatively.
- Maintain an honest and sincere path.
- Be courageous.
- Continue your training with patience.
- Cultivate perseverance through the will to strive.
- Never give up.
What participants of the previous cohort said
Miloš Milosavljević
It took me two minutes to consider whether I would travel from Belgrade to Prague and back every three weeks for the whole year. I'm very glad I made that decision.
Michael Has
During the course, Scrum Masters started mapping Customer Journeys. That was something we really missed in some teams.
Jakub Matějec
Karel definitely doesn't give us anything for free; he lets us figure everything out ourselves. That makes it all the more valuable when the group supports each other.
Jana Borkovcová
It really helped me how we discussed various team structures and how to do scaled Scrum when the team and product are very large.
Jan Nemeš
The long-term format has the advantage that we can absorb the information, apply it, try it out, and compare results with others.
Tomáš Ptáček
Karel thinks outside the traditional way of working. He brought us to many things we didn't know before.
Jakub Švarc
Scrum Master Dōjō is a great experience for building networking, meeting other Scrum Masters, and sharing experiences.
Scrum Masters from these companies have completed the program
Scrum Master Dōjō Certificate
Show your employers or clients how much effort you have put into your training
参加賞 Sankashō for attendance
Diploma for regular attendance at dōjō sessions, at least 9 out of 12 sessions.
努力賞 Doryokushō for persistent effort
Diploma for actively applying new knowledge in practice in your organization, and for sharing successes and failures with the community.
優秀賞 Yūshūshō for outstanding performance
Diploma for developing and publishing a case study about a lasting improvement in your organization.
Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.