Team Training for Developers

On-site training for your entire development team. Grow together, faster.

You have a technically strong team, but you notice certain patterns. Projects take longer than estimated. Communication doesn't always flow smoothly. What gets built doesn't always align perfectly with what customers need.

Bugs pile up, technical debt grows, and developers work more in silos than you'd like. Estimations rarely match reality, and deployments contain more problems than you'd prefer.

These challenges often aren't about technical skills — your team has those. They're about communication, ownership, priorities, and looking beyond the code.

With on-site team training, I work directly with your team on the skills that break these patterns: clear communication, taking ownership, effective prioritization, and collaborating on solutions.

Your entire team grows together, with immediate impact on collaboration and results.

What you'll learn

The training combines two essential pillars that truly help teams move forward:

1. Fundamental Skills

The individual qualities that make the difference:

  • Ownership — taking responsibility for your work
  • Communication — clear and effective communication
  • Clear agreements — creating clarity and managing expectations
  • Accountability — being reliable and delivering results

2. Practical Approach

Concrete tools and techniques for your daily work:

  • Effective development processes — how to set up an efficient process
  • Understanding customer needs — figuring out exactly what the customer needs
  • Architecture principles — choosing the right architecture for the problem
  • Prioritization and focus — what to do first and why

The result: a stronger team that collaborates more effectively and makes greater impact.

The training program

The training consists of six sessions of two hours each, with two weeks between each session. This gives your team time to apply what they learn and gain experience.

How a session works

Each session has a fundamental topic as its central theme — a core concept that we use to explore different aspects of your work.

This is not a fixed slideshow of 25 slides that I walk through. It's an interactive session where participants are actively encouraged to bring up their own challenges.

We discuss concrete situations your team is facing, and use the central theme of that session to find solutions together.

Assignments between sessions

After each session, participants receive a specific assignment to apply what they've learned in practice.

This ensures the training isn't just theory that gets forgotten afterwards. By actively practicing with the assignments, participants change their habits, their way of working, and their perspective on certain situations. This is how the training creates real, lasting impact.

Interactive and customized

Not theory, but discussion about your real challenges

Immediately applicable

Two weeks between sessions to practice and gain experience

On-site at your location

I come to your location. No travel time for your team

When I'm typically engaged

Your team is technically strong but lacks soft skills like communication and prioritization

There's a lot of potential but collaboration and processes could be better

You want to take your team to the next level without individual long-term programs

New team members need to become effective quickly while maintaining team dynamics

You want to invest in your team with immediate, visible results

Joost Vunderink

About me

With more than 25 years of experience in software development, architecture, and team leadership, I know exactly what teams struggle with. I help you take the steps that make the difference — practical, no nonsense.

Note: if your company is located in the Netherlands, you may be able to use the SLIM subsidy to cover (part of) this training.

Interested in team training?

Let me know briefly what challenges your team is facing and what you want to achieve. I'll contact you to discuss the possibilities.