Start a product and business model innovation initiative, iterate and pivot an idea, improve your team process and agile work culture and learn to apply a new toolbox in our customized Inhouse workshops. With our hands-on teaching style of the right tools and customized flow of actions you learn product thinking with peers in your company by solving your business challenges in an agile way. Create a culture of fast learning within a safe space by practicing Design Thinking, The Lean Startup method and Scrum.
The Product Dojo Inhouse is designed to accelerate cross-functional teamwork with the mission of creating products customers will love. We work with corporate startup teams, product groups, individuals leading product teams, and temporary product and business model innovation teams, also pivoting and growing startups and independent incubator or accelerator programs. We help lean and agile transformation teams with method teaching, scaling train-the trainer or coach-the-coach model and team coaching. Our team process also helps HR, sales and marketing teams lift-off and adopt an agile way of working.
Our coach-the-coach model enables your employees to grow their team skills beginning as learners, becoming coaches, teachers and change agent, while helping and getting help from coaches and peers using the Product Dojo Flow. After the coaching and teaching sessions we support the teams within our peers group on Slack, further ongoing remote and onsite coaching sessions. For companies that need to extend their existing cross-functional teams with complementary skills we provide via the #PoDojo network access to trusted experts in the field of Design Thinking Experts, Agile Coaches, Lean UX, Product Management, Product Owner and Agile Software Development.
Getting started with the Product Dojo Inhouse is easy. We follow a three step process to create your learning journey. First we begin with understanding your challenges using qualitative research and product assessment tools. Second we explore the design space, sparring with leadership to create a flow of actions, with potentially multiple steps to activate team members, leadership and entrepreneurs. Third we learn fast with the Product Dojo Flow. You will be ready to iterate your ideas towards sustainable products that customers will love and fit within viable business models within a maximum of three weeks.
When working with organisations who are leading in digital and agile product development we are constantly deepening our knowledge in designing agile product organisations that grow organically and adapt to fit needs. In the process of using our toolbox in coaching corporate startups and accelerators from global companies we’ve identified a set of core principles and success factors that guide us as we help innovation teams:
Organize in small, 100% dedicated, cross-functional teams using lightweight agile roles. Have a dedicated sponsor who leads in an agile way, creates high level of psychological safety and gives forthright, non-violent feedback. Nurture a culture of high autonomy, shared purpose, mastery and trust,. Establish a customer-centric flow, value create over react. Have a strong shared vision combined with rapid empirical design/test cycle for fast learning. Utilize a lightweight, emergent, adaptive agile process owned by the people who do the work, in a continuous improvement cycle, with emphasis on: focus, speed, action, visualization, time-boxing and experimenting. Be mindful of setting up a physical and digital workspace that adapts for creative work.
Here are some post about our insights and practices we gathered working hands-on together with our customers:
We are an experienced team working together since 2012 and have helped hundreds of people and teams at the Product Dojo, in Inhouse workshops and Coaching sessions, while also tackling the ever growing complexity of product innovation.
We put our customer’s problems first and then we co-create the next step or the entire journey, using our skills in Design Thinking, Lean Startup, Scrum Trainer (CST™) and Management 3.0 agile leadership tools. We have been practicing what we at #PoDojo teach since the early 1990s, and we have deep knowledge in agile product strategy and development, agile leadership, scaling product organisations and startups, corporate startups and accelerator programs and agile transformation.
