In their book, Artful Making: What Managers Need to Know About How Artists Work, Lee Devin and Rob Austin’s big “aha” was that knowledge workers are more like artists than they are like scientists. Devin’s approach is modeled on theatre production rather than industrial processes.

This class will teach you how to coach a team of developers, helping them maintain their creative edge while maximizing their throughput in a harmonious environment.

Based on the ideas discussed in Devin’s book, with a focus on generating and building high-performing, collaborative Agile teams, this session offers an introduction to some of the skills and exercises that will help your team reach its creative potential. The exercises are derived from those used by the artists whose work is most like software development: actors.