Essential Code Craft – The Roadmap

Some of you may have noticed that I’ve been running out-of-hours training workshops for self-funding learners recently, under the banner of Essential Code Craft. In a way, this is a return to the early days of Codemanship when I ran regular weekend workshops – priced for individual pockets – that were mostly attended by developers investing in their own skills and career development. Many of those people are now CTOs and heads of engineering, and I’ve been fortunate – and grateful – that quite a few have brought me in to provide the same kind of training for their teams. But with senior engineering leaders now very distracted by the code-generating firehose – and while I wait for them to realise that nothing’s actually changed as far as software engineering fundamentals are concerned – I’m pivoting back to self-funders. So far – just as it was way back when – the first two workshops filled up quickly. While the boss might not be thinking about investing in their developers at the…