Workshops · Black Lab Studios
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Your team doesn't need
another talk.

They've sat through those. Nothing changed on Monday. This is half a day to two days on your stack, against your problems, and a call at 30 days to find out what stuck. On site or remote, run by Gui Ferreira.

Engineers trained
500+
Group size
12 to 40
Shipping since
2006
Proposal in
48h

Not ready to book a full day? Start with a half day.

What we teach.

Workshops · 3

Three packaged workshops, grouped by the problem they go after. Each one is a starting point. The material gets rebuilt around your team on the call.

How it runs.

Formats · 3

Three formats. Groups of 12 to 40 developers, on site or remote.

01

Half-day session

3 to 4 hours

A focused introduction, or getting a whole team on the same page about one topic.

02

Full-day intensive

6 to 7 hours

One topic, in depth, with hands-on exercises through the day. The most common choice.

03

Two-day programme

2 days

Full coverage of a topic, with practice time between the two sessions so the second day starts from real questions.

We price per day. The number depends on format, group size and travel, so you get it in writing in the proposal, within 48 hours of the call.

What you get, and what you don't.

Scope
Included
  • Facilitation by Gui, start to finish
  • Slides and materials built around your team
  • Code examples and exercise repositories your team keeps (on the hands-on days)
  • A resource pack after the workshop
  • A 30-minute follow-up call at 30 days, to find out what actually stuck
This is not

Not a conference talk

Your team works. They write code, or they argue it out at the board. If they sit and watch all day, we've done it wrong.

Not a certification

There's no exam and no badge at the end. What your team keeps is the practice.

Not something they can prompt their way to

AI will answer any question your team already knows how to ask. The day is about the questions they don't know to ask yet.

Gui Ferreira.

Your instructor

Gui has been writing software since 2006 and is a Microsoft MVP. He's keynoted NDC Porto with a talk called Imagine If We Made It Simple, and has spoken at NDC Oslo, NDC London and Copenhagen Developers Festival. He's the author of seven courses on Dometrain, on testing, clean code, observability and AI, with more than 5,000 students and an average rating of 4.7 out of 5.

He teaches the way he builds. Show what the thing does, then show exactly how to do it, then get out of the way.

From a client
  • Critical Manufacturing
  • More than 180 engineers
“The training stood out for its strong hands-on component and structured approach. Complex topics were made practical and directly applicable to daily work.”
Ricardo Bessa, Industrial Equipment Area Manager at Critical Manufacturing. more than 180 engineers trained across several countries.

Request a workshop.

11 questions, 3 optional

Tell us what your team is stuck on. We read every one of these. If it's something we can teach well, we'll set up a 30-minute call and send a proposal within 48 hours of it. If it isn't, we'll say so.

Workshops run with 12 to 40 developers in the room.
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