Small Developer Boot Camp
Spring/Summer 2020 | Windsor, ON
Re: Moving the Boot Camp Online:
Our original contract with the City of Windsor included a Boot Camp intended as a two-day session held in Windsor with IncDev faculty. An in-person event of this nature with cross-border travel is obviously not an option for the foreseeable future.
Several of our training clients have faced the same challenge and we have since pivoted our two-day Boot Camp into an online alternative that we believe is an even better educational experience. Without the time pressure to cover the full curriculum in a weekend, we can stretch the lessons over many weeks, meaning participants will have the chance to validate their assumptions between classes. This will have a cumulative effect - increasingly useful inputs and more insightful questions with every step. In other words, the switch to online gives us the freedom to go deeper in both understanding and relationships. This model presents more focused support than could be provided otherwise for the same budget.
We have designed a custom Boot Camp here to cultivate the skills and confidence of a cohort pulled from our fall 2019 Windsor Workshop alumni. This cohort will represent several core neighbourhoods and help us provide takeaways to city administration. By walking through actual local development projects, our faculty can get a much better understanding of how the financial and regulatory environment shape development in Windsor and share these findings with the City.
The following program is described in eight “sprints,” each with a clear objective. Each sprint can be accomplished in as little as one week. Ideally, this program would run between 8-12 weeks and can begin as soon as mid-May.
The key tradeoff in moving online is the absence of social time to meet other participants. This will be mitigated by a greater total amount of time spent in both