The Dojos.
Cohort based courses and team coaching, built to grow employable digital skills through deliberate practice and close mentoring.
Why the dojos exist
Our dojos are built around deliberate practice. You learn by doing the work, with feedback at every step, until the skills are yours.
- Real problems, drawn from live projects
- Close feedback from experienced engineers
- Employable skills you keep and use
- A cohort of peers to learn alongside
Three ways to train
A dojo is wherever the practice happens. Pick the shape that fits where you are.
A day to a week
Short dojos
One discipline, practised deeply. A small group works through real exercises on real code, testing without mocks, fluent editing, refactoring, until the practice holds under pressure.
For individual developers and small groups
Several weeks
Cohort courses
A cohort joins a team and builds one real product from first principles to deployment. This is the institute model: the project is live, the users are real, and the skills are employable.
For learners building a career
Ongoing
Team coaching
We join your team, in your codebase, and raise the engineering practice while the work ships. Pairing, test driven development and continuous delivery, learned on your own product.
For organisations and their teams
What you will learn
The disciplines of professional software engineering, the same practices we use to build software and train our cohorts.
Test driven development
Write the test first, let it guide the design, and catch problems before they appear.
Working keyboard first
Work fluently in the terminal with Vim, so the editor stays out of your way.
Testing without mocks
Write fast, reliable tests that check real behaviour as it runs.
Pair programming
Two developers, one keyboard, with code review built into the work as it happens.
Continuous refactoring
Improve the code continuously while keeping it working, so quality stays a habit.
DORA metrics
Track deployment frequency, lead time and change failure rate, so progress is visible.
Upcoming dojos
Open cohorts and short courses. Places are limited.
Testing without mocks
Writing fast, reliable tests that check real behaviour.
TDD and Vim foundation
Test driven development and fluent editing in Vim.
Past dojos
Where we started, hands on dojos in Nigeria.
Software craftsmanship
Our first dojo, in Lagos.
Coding intensive
Hands on training, in Lagos.
Bring your team to a dojo
Join an open cohort, or talk to us about coaching your team.