Creating Your Dojo
Creating Your Dojo: Upskill Your Organization for Digital Evolution by Dion Stewart and Joel Tosi is a well‑known book in the Agile/DevOps and digital‑transformation space. It’s essentially the definitive guide to building an immersive learning environment (“a dojo”) inside an organization to accelerate capability building and modern product‑development practices.
What the book is about
Section titled “What the book is about”- How to design and launch a dojo inside your organization
- How teams learn through deliberate practice, coaching, and real work
- How to measure improvement and treat the dojo as a product
- How to coach for learning (different from coaching for delivery)
- How to scale dojos across large enterprises
Core takeaway
Section titled “Core takeaway”A dojo is presented as a hands-on, immersive learning environment where entire teams learn new skills while working on real product challenges — not theoretical exercises. The authors argue that traditional training produces fragmented improvements, while dojos create continuous learning, faster delivery, and better product/market fit.
Why it matters
Section titled “Why it matters”The book is widely referenced in Agile and DevOps circles because it provides a practical, repeatable model for building a learning organization — something many digital‑transformation initiatives struggle with. It’s also used by transformation leaders, product managers, engineering managers, and coaches who want to create sustainable capability uplift.