Most Coding Dojos follow 2 main formats: Kata and Randori. Both formats try to give as much information as possible to the audience by evolving solutions from scratch. This is great when dealing from Novice to Competent level but tends to get slightly less interesting to people at a higher level. The Kake format goes beyond competent by adding an extra challenge. It increases dynamics by putting people into a more “real” world exercise. Participants deal with unknown code bases and have to evolve from them. This clinic will present the format and initiate a real session with the attendees.

Diversity means many things to many people. For the purpose of this session we will be considering diversity in very simple and clear terms.

‘The unique and rich collection of each person’s experiences formed from many channels such as gender, religion, ethnicity etc, that provides them a rich toolkit for social interaction and problem solving’

In this interactive session, we share tools and techniques for discovering and collating diversity and demonstrate how we can tap into this rich mine of collated experiences to improve team effectiveness and dynamics.