Product-aligned delivery promotes agility – and the core of this ability is the Product Team. This panel will provide advice on how to structure multifunctional teams along the product life cycle.

In this presentation, we’ll share with you why Target pursued creating a Dojo for learning, how it evolved over its 3.5 years, the outcomes and success that teams take back with them, and the behavior changes this learning style has impressed on the culture of our organization. We will also talk through the mechanics, physical environment, coaching investment, process, and other tactics of implementing a Dojo in your company.

Are you ready for your Enterprise Agility journey? Let’s take a look! Becoming Agile and getting to Enterprise Agility is a journey of incremental progress where, as with other journeys, you’ll explore, discover, experiment, and learn - at your own pace and in a way that's right for your Enterprise.

Chris shares a cooperative board game he uses to drive mindset shifts within teams.

Jeremy will be on the panel to answer questions about Target's immersive learning environment, The Dojo. Come hear about what the Dojo is, what the Dojo offers to Agile teams and the organization, and the benefits that come from an immersive learning environment.

In the past, architecture choices, ensuring quality, and security and compliance technologies were the ways to enforce governance through tollgates, centralized approvals, and silos. Three years ago we started recommend_tech, which uses crowdsourcing to make technology choices at Target.

There are lots of questions about the role and how it differs between companies. Let's talk about what's the same and what's different in how we do Product Management where we work.

Software engineering may be difficult, but fostering a working environment that enables skilled engineers to perform their best can sometimes seem downright impossible. will discuss tips, tricks, and techniques that technical leaders and managers alike can utilize to better coach engineering teams, including concepts like the definition of empathy (and, more importantly, what doesn't count), the trust-influence relationship model, introducing new technologies in a meaningful and consumable way, and a 5-step process to provide teams confidence to own their new solutions moving forward.

There are an increasing number of engineering teams adopting React to build their e-commerce solutions, or high performance single page applications for any business sectors.

As the adoption increases, there is also the need to create, and publish reusable react components to share across teams.

'Can you save humanity? You and your team are the only things standing in the way of deadly diseases that threaten the world. The fate of humanity is in your hands.' - description of 'Pandemic' from Z-Man Games

Game on! But can a game really teach me something about being Agile? How can a board game save my team?

Unleashing Enterprise Business Agility requires routine maintenance and long-term investments in areas such as architecture and product management; combined with ongoing investment in coaching and training of lean-agile principles to empowered teams.

We will share stories behind Target’s journey and what it takes to grease the gears for Enterprise Business Agility at a large corporation, such as tuning Team Agility, Product Agility, Strategic Agility, and Operational Agility.

The road to Enterprise Business Agility is paved with tons of learning and long-term investments in areas such as architecture and product management; combined with ongoing investment in coaching and training of lean-agile principles to empowered teams. We will share stories behind Target’s journey and outline our path to Enterprise Business Agility at a large corporation, such as navigating through Team Agility, Product Agility, Strategic Agility, and Operational Agility.

Travis talks about Target's Digital Transformation and how coaching, immersive learning, and PLAD have had their impact on the organization.

A de-centralized approached to democratizing architecture, engineering, and technology choices with emphasis on more guidance and less governance.

Pete highlights of the lessons that Target have learned on the way to our current iteration of the Product Model.

Hear about the Dojo and how it has contributed to Target's journey so far.

Travis and Jeremy will be on the panel to answer questions about Target's transformation with other organizations and will also be available for questions during the social hour.

Joel talks about Target’s architecture and learning culture. (Starts at 14:45)

Ross and Travis share Target's continued adoption of Test Driven Development (TDD).

Amy and Travis talk about how the Dojo is growing beyond IT teams.

Levi, Matt, and Brian participated on a panel to discuss ways Agile and DevOps topics can be brought into post-secondary education classrooms and challenges faculty face doing so.

Hear about the Dojo and how it has contributed to Target's journey so far.

Visit our booth to get some swag, hear about the Dojo, sign up for a tour, and hear about our services.

Andy will tell a story about how he and a small team leveraged ruthless prioritization, a test and learn team culture, and partnered heavily to navigate a large organization.

Chris and Travis talk about how the Dojo has changed over the last year, and how coaching continues to evolve as the needs of the organization change.

Heather talks about some of the progress Target is making at adopting a DevOps Culture.

Chris and Jon talk about the concept of a "Dojo", which means "place of the way".

Heather and Ross continue to share Target's journey to DevOps.

This talk will largely be a reflection on the DevOps journey at Target and the focus on (re)building an engineering culture.

Heather and Ross talk how Target is starting to DevOps across the company.