And, most importantly:
Scrum Master Dōjō is a long term intensive development program for Scrum Masters, agile coaches and change agents.
Practitioners of all experience levels are welcome. Everyone has different strenghts and different needs. The programs benefits greatly from the diversity of the participants.
Your Dōjō instructor: Karel Smutný
You will meet regularly in person with other participants on intensive Dōjō sessions. (See the schedule for 2023.)
Facilitation and coaching skills
Thinking in organizational patterns instead of frameworks
Systems thinking and system modeling
Leading teams towards technical excellence
See more bellow.
There is no curriculum scheduled in advance. The agenda is created and adjusted as we go, based on your and other participants' needs and interests.
However, most of the topics will revolve around the aforementioned themes.
Towards the end of each session, you will choose a personalised "homework". It might be:
Throughout the program, you will be in contact with the trainer and other participants on ScrumDōjō Slack.
From your practice or self-study, you prepare a summary of your learning to share with the other participants.
It may be a poster, blog post, short video, or a short presentation.
At the begginning of each Dōjō session, you will share your learnings with the other participants.
Scrum Master Dōjō draws from the diverse knowledge and experiences of the participants.
Traditional Japanese dōjō is a place where students of martial arts (budō) fully immerse into learning "The Way of Life" (dō), focusing on improving their martial craft (bujutsu), discipline, fulfillment and personal growth.
We are preparing dates for 2024. Stay tuned.
While a dedicated certification training (like our Professional Scrum Facilitation Skills™) provides a lot knowledge and inspiration, one truly learns facilitation and coaching through constant practice. Both at the dōjō and in real life.
In Scrum Master Dōjō, you will:
We will be heavily utilizing Liberating Structures↗, facilitation techniques optimized for maximum engagement at large scale.
It is immensely useful to know, and understand, various organizational frameworks (Scrum, LeSS, Nexus, SAFe, "Spotify model that does not exist", Team Topologies, unFIX, etc.).
Quoting them, not so much.
As a change agent, you need to be framework agnostic and start thinking in organizational patterns instead:
We will be looking at Scrum (and other frameworks) as a collection of patterns, or building blocks of an agile organization, instead of an all-or-nothing framework.
In Systems Thinking we acknowledge how different parts of a complex organization influence each other, often in ways that are not obvious.
Using system modeling, we visualize these relationships to have meaningful conversations about root causes or self-reinforcing loops (i.e. vicious or virtuous cycles).
It is a much stronger tool for influencing senior management toward required organizational changes than quoting popular "scaling frameworks".
In Scrum Master Dōjō, you will:
Karel is a consultant for agile transformations and organizational design, Scrum trainer and programmer.
Close to 15 years he has worked with dozens of organizations, from start-ups to established technology companies to multinational corporations. In them he "left his mark" on almost a hundred teams and thus draws on very rich experience.
Karel focuses on "descaling" (simplifying) organizations, building team responsibility and technical excellence.
As a long-time developer, he emphasizes sustainable architecture, readable code and automation.
Scrum is not a development framework. It's a cultural shock.
Agile Coders, s.r.o.
IČO 04734378
DIČ CZ04734378
karel.smutny@scrumdojo.cz
+420 777 185 511
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