fannie-mae-feb-14.md

Fannie Mae Digital Products Engineering Dojo

Timeframe

3 Weeks, March 7th

Elevator Pitch

Our product engineering dojo is an immersive learning space where teams build a product mindset and best-in-class engineering skills. We do this by putting learning ahead of process by working on their actual product backlog, pairing teams with dedicated product and engineering coaches, and iterating rapidly twice a week.

By the end of their 6-week challenge, teams emerge with greater confidence, new skills and techniques, and a clear understanding of how to operate as effective product delivery teams.

Goals & Success Measures

Measure Challenge Team Experience (Positive Experience)

• We have an NPS-type survey in place.
• Run team mood experiment.
• Capture 2 anecdotes/stories from challenge team participants (demonstrate growth).
• Capture 10 good photos that illustrate the team experience.

Help Product Teams Grow Their Skills

• Baseline 3 quantitative measures selected by first challenge team.
• Develop draft qualitative survey to get at individual sense of skill development.
• Build a menu of suggested metrics/measures.

Build Internal Coaching Capability in Product, Engineering, and Dojo Model

• FM coaches ready co-facilitate intake and collaborative framing.
• Document intake, collaborative framing practices on Confluence.

Build Awareness

• Management sessions?
• Brown bags / lean coffee
• 1-hour presentation @laribee
• First Dojo tour
• Publish the elevator pitch on Confluence (landing page draft)
• Yammer blog post on dojo
• T-Shirts :)

Longer Term Goals

Scale to Org

After Dojo Experience Coaching, Long Term Effects