Robert Clawson
Agile and Product Dojo Coach
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
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Robert is a talented, energetic, and insightful coach focused on helping teams align on their best way of working to build trust and accountability. He has spent more than a decade in the IT field with a primary focus on agile framework, product development, and software quality.
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Using Liberating Structures to Conquer Complex Challenges
This presentation explores liberating structures like: "1-2-4-All" and “What I Need From You" as powerful tools for enhancing alignment, understanding and collaboration within organizations and product development teams. By dissecting the framework and its application, the workshop exemplifies how this approach can empower engineers and product leaders to gain deeper understanding of their stakeholders and customers to ultimately foster more effective and harmonious working relationships.
Product Mastery: Immersive Learning for Discovery and Delivery
A safe space to practice dangerous things; this is the idea behind a dojo. Understand how Discovers Technology Academy has used immersive learning dojos on technology teams, with a specific focus on how they have accelerated our value delivery by dedicating the time to embrace product centricity head-on and emphasizing a generative organizational culture. Immersive learning dojos provide a unique environment for hands on learning, collaboration and skill development - enabling teams to slow down and take time to be thoughtful about their ways of working, products and technology. This session delves into the tactics employed and learned within the dojos that have empowered product owners to enhance their effectiveness and efficiency at delivering value, driving innovation, and empowering their technical counterparts. Attendees will gain insights into real word examples, lessons learned, and tangible strategies that can be applied to help assess their own organization and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
Product Centricity and Agility: Mega Powers combined
In software development two themes run rampant which are complementary yet distinct: Product Centricity and Agility. Even specialists of these areas might not be familiar with how they are different, what their divergent priorities are, and how to align when trying to decide on where to fall on the continuum between the two. Hear about how these Mega Powers can either work together or explode! Learn how organizations like Discover use dojos and academies to helps product leaders and agile coaches align to drive innovation and continuous improvement while staying true to product vision and organizational outcomes.
Which technical practices naturally foster a culture of trust and accountability?
Learn about how technical transformation and dedication to excellent DevOps practices precede any organizational revolution when looking to change with purpose. Although cultural pillars of high performing teams like trust and accountability are widely sought after, certain DevOps practices help lead to these tendencies more naturally, enabling leadership to quickly see the fruits of their support and engineers to work autonomously, avoid toil and be able to rely on each other to achieve the best outcomes.
The art of getting to less - Embracing the agile principle of simplicity
Come hear about applying one of the trickiest Agile principles: "Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not done--is essential"! This agile principle is frequently overlooked when organizations and teams create or improve products. Why do humans love to add in order to improve? This gets in the way of faster, smoother and better delivery. Hear about the psychology behind why we do this. Learn how organizations like Discover use dojos and academies to helps teams improve.
Enterprise Technology Leadership Summit US 2024 Sessionize Event
Devnexus 2024 Sessionize Event
ProductWorld 2024 Sessionize Event
Agile + DevOps East
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All Things Open
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AgileIndy 2023
AgileIndy is a user group devoted to raising awareness, acceptance, and support to people who explore and apply agile values, principles, and practices to make building software solutions more effective, humane, and sustainable.
TriAgile
TriAgile is a not-for-profit Agile conference serving the Southeast. Their home in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina anchors them in the heart of a thriving agile community.
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