A 1-day workshop with Joe Justice

Manufacturing companies are under pressure to move faster, innovate sooner, and respond to change without compromising quality, safety, or operational stability. However, many product development and production systems were built around long planning cycles, heavy approval processes, fixed budgets, and expensive late changes.

JoeDX is designed for companies that want to challenge that model.

What if manufacturing change did not have to take years?

In many traditional automotive companies, even a minor product change can take 2.5 years. A significant change can take five to seven years.

In an agile automotive company, changes to headlights, taillights, and charging ports can happen in two days. More than 20 times per week. Installed in actual vehicles.

That sounds almost impossible until you look at the system behind the work.

JoeDX is not about adding Agile language to an old manufacturing process. It is about redesigning the way decisions, budgets, approvals, teams, product architecture, and feedback loops work together.

Because in many manufacturing companies, speed is not blocked by people. It is blocked by the system they are forced to work in.

About Joe Justice

Joe has worked with some of the world’s most demanding technology, manufacturing, and engineering organizations, including Tesla, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Boeing, Toyota, MIT, Oxford University, and UC Berkeley. At Tesla, he operated Agile@Tesla from the company’s Fremont headquarters, where he focused on applying Agile principles in a high-speed automotive manufacturing environment.

Joe is also a TED speaker, and his work has been featured in media and business outlets including Forbes, Harvard Business Review, CNN Money, and Discovery Channel.

What makes Joe different is simple: he does not teach Agile for manufacturing as theory. He has built cars, worked with hardware teams, redesigned systems of work, and helped organizations rethink how fast physical products can be changed, tested, improved, and delivered.

About the workshop

In this 1-day workshop, Joe Justice will show how Agile can be applied far beyond software, especially in manufacturing, hardware, automotive, engineering, and complex product development environments.

The workshop draws on Joe’s experience from environments such as Tesla, SpaceX, and Wikispeed, where speed, engineering complexity, hardware, software, and manufacturing constraints all meet. JoeDX focuses on how Agile hardware development can help companies innovate faster, respond to change sooner, and reduce the friction that slows physical product development.

This is not an abstract Agile theory session. It is a practical workshop about reducing bottlenecks, shortening feedback loops, improving product innovation, and making change less slow, less painful, and less expensive in environments where physical products, suppliers, tooling, production constraints, and engineering decisions all matter.

Participants will explore how Agile Hardware Development can help companies improve their speed of response to change, support faster innovation, and reduce the friction created by approvals, budgets, organizational silos, and slow decision-making.

What you will explore

In this workshop, you will learn how Agile principles can be adapted to manufacturing and physical product development, including:

• How to organize teams for faster innovation

• How to reduce bottlenecks in design, engineering, and manufacturing

• How modular product architecture enables faster change

• How budgeting and governance can support responsiveness instead of slowing it down

• How self-forming and self-managing teams can increase speed and ownership

• How feedback loops can be shortened in hardware and production environments

• What Extreme Manufacturing means in practice

• How to create factories and systems that can absorb frequent design updates

• How Agile practices can connect hardware, software, engineering, business, and production

The JoeDX curriculum includes topics such as agile organization design, responsive budgeting, modularization, Lean Coffee, digital self-management, self-forming teams, and Extreme Manufacturing.

Who should attend?

This workshop is especially relevant for people working in or with manufacturing companies, from small specialized producers to large industrial organizations.

It is designed for:

• Executives and senior managers responsible for transformation, innovation, operations, or product development

• Engineering, R&D, production, and product leaders

• Managers and team leaders in manufacturing environments

• Agile coaches and transformation leads working outside pure software contexts

• Product development leaders working with hardware, software, and complex systems

• Anyone asking whether Agile can really work in manufacturing

Certification

After successfully completing the workshop, participants receive certification in Agile Hardware and Software Development, provided by the Agile Business Institute.

Why this workshop matters

For many manufacturing companies, the real problem is not a lack of talent. It is that talented people are often trapped inside systems that make learning slow, change expensive, and innovation harder than it needs to be.

JoeDX gives participants a different lens: how to build organizations where change is not treated as a disruption, but as a core capability.

If your company wants to shorten development cycles, improve collaboration between hardware and software, speed up innovation, or rethink how manufacturing teams respond to change, this workshop will challenge your assumptions and give you concrete ideas to bring back into your organization.

Key takeaway

You will leave with a clearer understanding of what slows manufacturing companies down and what needs to change if speed, adaptability, quality, and innovation are to work together instead of against each other.