Create Your Own Apprenticeship by Dave Hoover
Channel: ConfEngine
Date: 2015-02-26

I was 25 years old when I decided to switch careers from family therapist to software developer. A couple years later, I read Pete McBreen's "Software Craftmanship" and was introduced to the concept of apprenticeship. I immediately starting searching for the sort of apprenticeship that Pete had written about. I found it at RoleModel Software, but by the time I had found RoleModel in 2003, they weren't hiring. So I pieced my own apprenticeship together, and eventually was hired by ThoughtWorks in 2004. A year later, I began writing about and researching effective apprenticeships, based on my experiences and those that I was interviewing. The patterns that my co-author and I discovered were recorded in our book, Apprenticeship Patterns: Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman. Come learn some tried-and-true ways to level-up your skills and career.

Conference: http://2013.agileindia.org
Slide and Other details: http://betterconf.com/agileindia2013/index.html#session-74-info