// SFF

Education for the factory engineer era.

The foundation produces vendor-neutral training and certification for engineers, practitioners, and leaders adopting software factory workflows.

Foundation

Software Factory Foundations

2 days · Cohort

The category-defining intensive. Engineering teams build a working multi-agent factory, ship a project through it, and leave with a config they can run on Monday.

Learning Outcomes

  • Multi-agent pipeline architecture
  • Config-over-prompting discipline
  • Memory & context conventions
  • Human-in-the-loop checkpoints
Practitioner

Factory Operator Certification

4 weeks · Async + cohort

For platform engineers operating factories in production. Covers operational standards, observability, and ecosystem composition across foundation working groups.

Learning Outcomes

  • Factory observability
  • Cross-vendor composition
  • Incident response playbooks
  • Operational SLOs for multi-agent systems
Leadership

Engineering Leader Briefing

1 day · Onsite or virtual

For CTOs, VPs, and platform engineering leaders evaluating software factory adoption. Pragmatic, vendor-neutral, focused on transformation realities.

Learning Outcomes

  • Adoption maturity model
  • Build vs. compose decisions
  • Team & org redesign
  • Investment & risk framing
Academic

Foundation Curriculum License

Semester

An open foundation curriculum for universities, bootcamps, and corporate L&D programs. Includes lecture material, labs, and a maintained reference factory.

Learning Outcomes

  • Lectures & lab notebooks
  • Reference factory project
  • Assessment rubrics
  • Instructor community of practice

Verifiable foundation certifications.

Foundation certifications are issued as signed digital credentials. They're cryptographically verifiable, vendor neutral, and tied to the foundation's public standards.

  • Foundation-issued credential
  • Cryptographically verifiable
  • Tied to ratified foundation standards
  • Renewed annually with continuing education

Apply to teach with the foundation

We're onboarding instructors for the inaugural cohort. Practitioner backgrounds in multi-agent systems, platform engineering, and developer tooling preferred.

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Open curriculum for universities and corporate L&D.

The foundation maintains an open curriculum for software factory practice — lectures, labs, a reference factory, and assessment rubrics — that universities, bootcamps, and corporate learning programs can adopt under a foundation license.

12-week core curriculum

Maintained reference factory

Instructor community

Student certification path