Effectively Upskilling Your Teams in the Flow of Work with Chris Pipito

Effectively Upskilling Your Teams in the Flow of Work

We've been approaching learning backwards. Traditional training assumes knowledge transfer leads to behavior changes, but decades of failed transformation initiatives proves otherwise. The problem isn't that people can't learn, nor is it motivation or content - it's context; it's that learning is divorced from doing. The dojo is a return to how we naturally master complex skills: through immersion, repetition, and guided struggle with real challenges. Teams bring their real world work and constraints into the dojo and learning shifts from theoretical to tangible.

Teams face immediate pressures - delivering faster, improving quality, and managing technical debt, to name a few. Creating environments where teams can slow down to focus on understanding concepts, find clear direction in complexity, and build capabilities through guided repetition and practice gives teams the ability to navigate these and other challenges. Learning doesn't happen when we step away from our work; it happens when we learn to see our work differently.

About the speaker:
Chris Pipito is a software product development coach. Since 2012, Chris has been coaching organizations in multiple industries including Automotive, Financial, Insurance, Retail, Health Care, and Scientific and Technical Services. He is the founder of DDD Philly, a community group focused on helping people learn & practice Domain-Driven Design (DDD). He is a public speaker sharing his experiences, both in-person and virtual, to help people and teams improve. Chris is currently writing a book on Flow and Teaming, drawing on his hands-on experience coaching organizations and teams. Since 2022, Chris has been coaching teams and organizations in the dojo, an immersive learning environment where teams learn, practice, and improve their capabilities all while delivering their real-world work within the constraints of their organization.

Sites of Interest: chrispipito.com; chrispipito.substack.com; dojoandco.com; softwareteaming.com; dddunitedstates.com