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Engineering Culture by InfoQ

Dojo Coaching for Building Technical Skills

Nov 17, 2023
The podcast discusses coaching for building technical skills, focusing on the Dojo model of experiential learning. It covers the hosts' backgrounds, a tribute to a influential engineer, experiences at an event, codifying coaching for learning in technical skills, and the roles and responsibilities of coaches in an agile environment.
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Quick takeaways

  • The book 'Coaching for Learning' provides principles and techniques for effective coaching in the technology industry, emphasizing the importance of learning over delivery.
  • The Dojo model of learning, inspired by martial arts dojos, promotes team learning within real-world projects, encourages repetition and experimentation, and has led to improved capabilities in organizations like Target.

Deep dives

About Dion Stewart and Joel Tosi

Dion Stewart is a developer and coach with extensive experience in software development. He began his career as a small talk developer in the 1990s and has since become a full-time coach. Joel Tosi is a senior technical coach and engineer with a background in low latency and high throughput systems. He has worked at the Mercantile Exchange and Red Hat, and has a passion for helping teams improve their engineering practices.

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