We only get what we give.

“We only get what we give”, sang the New Radicals back in the late 1990s. It’s also the approach we take with our clients and developers. We want happy clients. We want back-flipping-with-delight, beyond-their-wildest-expectations, happy clients. To get that, we must give the best development team we can to their project. And to get that, we must give our development team the best training we can.

To this ambitious end, we’ve enrolled our entire development team in a comprehensive skills development programme for 2022. We want them to be the best they can be. Because we know that if our staff are knowledgeable, motivated and happy, then our clients benefit hugely too.

There are many aspects to this training programme. For example, it involves:

• PluralSight. This provides online and on-demand training courses which span most technical development stacks. All our developers are enrolled in the programme, and we track their learning and skills development to ensure they get maximum benefits from the content available.

• Umbraco. Intuitiv is a Certified Umbraco Gold Partner. As part of this agreement, we commit to providing all our developers with all the relevant Umbraco training they need to ensure they’re fully equipped to deliver flexible and intuitive content-managed websites. New developers are automatically put through the Junior Developer Accelerator Programme. Intuitiv are proud to be trailblazers of this inaugural programme, providing 5 comprehensive starter courses and access to an Umbraco MVP (most valuable player) mentor, along with scheduled seminars and webinars. The entire team then continues with ongoing courses to build on and enhance our expertise and adoption of this CMS.

• NET Core. We’re committed to keeping all our developers at the forefront of the Microsoft .NET Technology Stack, with all new project work utilising the very latest Microsoft Web Development Toolkits.

• Weekly Developer Forums. We have a weekly developer-only meeting which is both incredibly productive and supportive. It’s reserved purely for the exchange and discussion of all the very latest ideas, findings, problems (and their solutions) that the developers have come across.

The world of technical web development is ever-evolving. Having highly trained, motivated web developers on board is crucial. They must be completely in sync with the latest technology and toolkit developments.

Sure, delivering technical projects involves challenges. But, even with those challenges, we believe it’s key to ring-fence dedicated time for our developers. Time for them to immerse themselves in skills development. Skills that they can apply to new projects going forward.

We don’t really advertise. Most of our work comes via word of mouth or new projects with existing clients. To get to this enviable position we have always given our clients the best possible website we can. And to continue to do that we give our developers the best possible training we can.

Because we only get what we give.