But now? Every feature takes weeks.
Every project feels like wading through a swamp.
What if you didn't have to push them?
What if they craved the thrill of a successful launch?
What if building world-class products
felt less like a grind — and more like an adventure?
Jet another "agile transformation" will only make it worse.
And pressure just leads to malicious compliance.
What your team needs is to feel the thrill of building again.
The same thrill that got you into this industry.
Lean Developer Experience is a one-day workshop
that makes your team feel what it's like to move fast.
A high-intensity simulation where
the fast, value driven team wins the game.
The thrill of rapid delivery and instant feedback
leaves teams wanting to ship faster.
They return energized to shorten cycle times, prioritize business value,
and ship features that actually get a smile on your customers face.
It's just one day, but it builds momentum
that drives months of results.
My biggest takeaway from the event was how important it is to deliver quickly, monitor the impact of the delivery and alter your product according to the metrics. Which is what we should know as engineers working in Agile, but I think we get caught up in the tech side of things instead of building the best product. Johnathan Hair, Head of Engineering
Facilitating Lean Developer Experience made it crystal clear how much good technical practices – like testing, refactoring, and simple design – actually matter. We saw firsthand that better code quality leads to better team performance and more flexibility for future features. It was a fun, safe space to experiment, and those habits have lasted long after the workshop. Lars Eckart, Technical Coach
It’s not a lecture or PowerPoint. It’s a high-speed simulation of real product delivery. Think of it as a flight simulator for your dev team. You get months of experience in just hours, safely. In this workshop:
Your team won’t just talk about agility – they’ll live it. Under real pressure. With shifting requirements. With hard trade-off decisions. And with the thrill of shipping software that actually works for the customer at the end of the day.
The highest-performing engineering teams don’t just move fast – they learn fast. They ship early, measure impact, and iterate continuously. That’s exactly what we drill in. By compressing what might be months of development into a single day, Lean Developer Experience helps your team internalize habits of an elite “DORA-level” team:
And unlike theory-heavy trainings, none of this is about memorizing frameworks or buzzwords. It’s about real code, real teamwork, and real-time problem solving. The result is behavior change. Your team leaves with firsthand experience of why certain practices (CI/CD, TDD, trunk-based development, you name it) actually matter, because they’ve seen the outcomes themselves.
Lean Developer Experience is full of “aha!” moments: practical lessons that stick. Although every team is different, here are some of the most common learnings we see:
Who is more likely to win at Lean Developer Experience? The team that builds the perfect bot, or the one that releases early and perfects later?
Just like in the real world, leveraging real-time feedback, catching errors early, and dropping bad ideas before they become waste is key to success.
The high-paced environment of Lean Developer Experience is truly unforgiving for teams that need to learn this lesson.
If a “best practice” slows you down, is it even a good practice? Do we really need a test for every function? Can we skip the retro this week?
In the heat of the simulation, teams drop habits they thought were essential. Or cling to them, only to watch their team lose. Some learn the hard way that skipping quality slows them down. Others find that what they thought was “the right way” never mattered at all.
Lean Developer Experience creates the one place where teams learn to tell apart the essential practices of technical excellence from the ones that are just noise.
Culture isn’t pizza nights or calling ourselves a family. It’s how people work together. How they challenge each other with respect.
At Lean Developer Experience, collaboration gets real. The pressure is on. Decisions matter. That’s when the team comes together.
You’ll see developers huddled around a laptop, debugging in sync. A product manager calling the next move. A teammate stepping up at just the right moment.
That’s what real culture looks like. And your team will feel it.
Kent Beck said it best: “I’m not a great programmer. I’m just a programmer with great habits.”
Tools and habits are what separate good engineers from great ones. Those who use their tools with confidence move faster and break less.
Windsurf might write code faster, but it's wasted characters unless you give it purpose.
IntelliJ may have powerful features, but it's no substitute for design skills.
Tools alone won’t win the game for any team. It's the habits. The fluency. The focus on outcomes.
We know logistics matter, so here’s how it works:
In short, we make it easy. Whether your team is co-located in a conference room or distributed across time zones, Lean Developer Experience is designed to run smoothly. We’ve run it for startups with 10 engineers in a room, and departments with 5 teams dialing in from around the world.
Let’s talk about bringing Lean Developer Experience to your team. Contact us and we’ll get back to you within 2 business days to coordinate details. A quick intro call is usually the best way to align on your goals and tailor the workshop for your context.
You don’t have to wait to start fixing your feedback loops.
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