Alex Basa
Edward Jones, Enterprise Dojo Coach
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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Alex Basa is a Dojo Coach at Edward Jones that is building the dojo capability from the ground up. He has almost 20 years of experience in product delivery through a variety of agile frameworks. Alex helps companies transform at the team, enterprise and executive level. He comes from a developer background and has a passion for innovation, DevOps, people development, product discovery and transformation.
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Our journey towards Immersive learning with a Dojo
This is not the Karate Kid Dojo. However, similarities to Wax On Wax Off repetition does apply here and you will have your Mr. Miyagi in your coaches . Centene has adopted the Dojo idea from Target and introduced dojos into our environment this year with success. One of our goals is to help scale technical best practices across the enterprise through the hands on dojo approach. This is the idea of one team, 2 coaches, 6 weeks, real work, using best practices. We will share our collective experiences through a series of stories on our approach to team learning. We will go over what a dojo is and why it is important. We will cover the roles and how we got started along with sharing how we run the dojo with the lessons learned. We ran into some unexpected wins from the dojo experience we will share. We will include everything needed for the dojo outside of the dojo including the assessments, priority and backlog of the dojos along with the marketing and hiring for the dojos too. Don’t forget the logistics. We will share the different experiences we have had in all of them and share what stuck after we left.
Our goal is to equip you with enough information to experiment with the idea of a dojo in your company if you are in need of a fresh way of revamping your training and coach approach in your organization.
Learning Outcomes:
- What is a dojo and why is it important?
- What are the roles in the dojo?
- How did we get started?
- How do we run the dojo?
- What have we learned?
- What were the unexpected wins in the dojo?
- Outside of the dojo for the dojo
- Assessing, Backlog, Prioritizing, Marketing and Hiring
Has your digital transformation stalled?
Has your ability to deliver products gotten slower as a result of an agile or digital transformation? Are you constantly restarting your transformation? Has your company got agile fatigue?
I will share common challenges that I have experienced at multiple companies and how we solved them. I will also share what we tried that didn't work and what we learned from it.
I will share the key turning points in the transformation as well as the metrics used to measure progress.
Creating a dojo capability from the ground up
Do you work with teams that struggle to learn or retain new skills due to being over capacity? Join my session to see how a dojo can help with a hands-on immersive learning approach that is focused on gaining new skills while executing on real work.
I will be sharing my journey in establishing a dojo capability for two fortune 500 companies. I'll delve into navigating the intricate political landscape and discuss how I overcame challenges. Learn how I secured leadership buy-in, demonstrated value, and successfully built momentum to transform dojo into a funded product that is still expanding, even in this climate.
A new approach to upskilling your workforce
"In order to scale initiatives. we need to transform the way the organization learns"
There is always a high need for new skills. What is your strategy to upskill your workforce?
I will share the training programs that I have created during a transformation that lead to higher learning retention and skills gain. I will share what worked and how we not only changed the training approach, we also had to change the way we measured the effectiveness of the training to know if we are having a meaningful impact.
A more effective way to execute your DevOps strategy
This session will talk through different methods I have been involved in with upskilling, retooling and advancing DevOps practices. I will talk through the pros and cons of each approach as well as which approach has been the most effective and long lasting.
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