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title: "Software Apprenticeship"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2009/12/30/software-apprenticeship.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2009/12/30/software-apprenticeship.html"
published: "2009-12-30T17:12:29"
updated: "2009-12-30T17:12:29"
tags: [".NET", "Agile"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Wow, maybe indeed it is time for a book about apprenticeship in software. I think the software craftsmanship initiative is long overdue, but it won’t be complete without the idea of proper leadership , not just…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Software Apprenticeship

By Roy Osherove December 30, 2009 In [.NET](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net), [Agile](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile)

**Historical article** · Originally published December 30, 2009; technical details may be outdated.

Wow, maybe indeed it is time for a [book about apprenticeship](http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596518387) in software. I think the software craftsmanship initiative is long overdue, but it won’t be complete without the [idea of proper leadership](http://5whys.com/), not just apprenticeship.

speaking of books, there’s going to be a [special version of my book for java](http://www.manning.com/koskela2/). how cool is that?

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    ### [Advanced .NET Debugging](https://osherove.com/blog/2009/12/30/advanced-net-debugging.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/