For Engineering Leaders
Elevate Your Engineering Culture Through Deliberate Practice.
Immersive workshops designed to help your team master TDD, refactoring, and collaboration—away from the pressure of shipping deadlines.
Immersive workshops designed to help your team master TDD, refactoring, and collaboration—away from the pressure of shipping deadlines.
The daily grind focuses on delivery, often at the expense of craft. A Code Retreat is a reset button for your team's engineering habits.
Teams practice Test-Driven Development in a safe environment, learning to write cleaner, more maintainable code without the fear of breaking production.
Pair programming with different partners throughout the day builds empathy, spreads domain knowledge, and strengthens team bonds better than a happy hour.
We tackle constraints specifically designed to improve refactoring skills. Engineers return with new techniques to handle your existing codebase with confidence.
Paradoxically, slowing down to practice fundamentals leads to faster delivery. Teams learn to avoid the pitfalls that cause bugs and rework.
Stepping away from the 'how we always do it' mindset encourages creative problem solving. Engineers bring fresh perspectives back to their daily work.
Investing in your team's growth is a powerful retention tool. Show your best engineers that you value their craft and professional development.
Standard Operating Procedure
A structured approach to deliberate practice.
We analyze your tech stack and team challenges to customize the problem set (Kata) specifically for your domain context.
A full day of 45-minute sessions. Code is deleted after each session to focus on the practice, not the product. Pairs swap frequently. A short retrospective after each session steers the direction of the workshop.
We conclude with a facilitated retrospective to identify concrete techniques the team will apply to production code starting Monday.
Facilitated by veteran engineers who have led teams from the trenches.
Senior Software Engineer
Experienced software engineer with a passion for clean code, continuous learning and test-driven development.
Senior Software Engineer and Agile Coach
20+ years in software engineering and Agile coaching. Ariejan brings a focus on clean code and developer happiness.
Senior Agile Coach
Niels brings massive experience in Agile coaching, with a focus on fostering team collaboration and continuous improvement through practices like Code Retreats.
Schedule a free 30-minute chat to discuss your team's current challenges and how a Code Retreat can help.
No commitment required. Ideal for teams of 8-50 engineers.