Growing a Software Development Apprenticeship Program

Watch Chris Tite presenting on Software Apprenticeships. This event was recorded at Devconf, May, 25th 2023, Pretoria.

7 years ago Kaleidocode and Kaleidocode Pivot made the decision to change our approach and instead of only trying to find great people, we decided to help develop them as well. Leveraging our internal company ethos of learning, as well as our tagline "Learn, Grow, Deliver" we embarked on a journey to grow young developers and positively contribute to the software development ecosystem.

This presentation from Kaleidocode CTO, Chris Tite is not only the story of our journey, it is also the story of some of our juniors who have been through the apprenticeship program and are now leaders in our and other organisations.

In the video Chris covers:

• The inception of the Apprenticeship program.
• Our approach to growing young software developers.
• How we fast track growing young leaders and encourage them to stay.