How apprenticeship helps you win the cooperative game of organizational survival, and sets you up for winning the smaller, finite games of software development.

1. Winning at
Cooperative Games
Dave Hoover
@davehoover
Dev Bootcamp, Chicago

2. The right conference
can change your life

3. Back to the Point
• Introducing a cool idea from an Agile pioneer
• How I think about cooperative games
• Apprenticeship as a key strategy for winning

4. Who’s this?

7. #protip How do you
pronounce this word?
Cockburn

8. import cockburn.ideas;
// check @davehoover

9. Disclaimer:
I like games.
I like winning.

10. Software development is
a unique kind of activity

11. • Cooperative
• Finite
• Goal-seeking
• Competitive

12. People are increasingly
at the center of the game

13. Organizational survival
is a different game

14. • Cooperative
• Infinite*
• Goal-seeking
• Competitive

15. Organizational game:
set up for the next win

16. Organizational winning:
attract & grow awesome
people

17. Two-pronged
approach to growth

18. Apprenticeship grows
(and attracts)
awesome people
(players of the game)

19. Ingredients of a good
Apprenticeship Program

20. • Mentor, Team, Owner
• Sustainable Ratio
• Culture over Curriculum
• In the Trenches
• Pet Project
• Milestones
• Feedback Loops

21. Apprenticeship is “easy”,
but it’s a hard move

22. Thanks,
Let’s talk!
Dave Hoover
@davehoover
Dev Bootcamp, Chicago