The Software Engineering Gym
SprintLab Residency
Work on a real Agile software team.
A 12-week, cohort-based program where you ship software through six consecutive sprints—not lectures or isolated assignments.
Practice over performance
Participants don't watch lectures or complete isolated assignments. Instead, they join a cross-functional team—QA, product, engineering, and more—that ships software through six consecutive sprints using industry-standard Agile practices.
By the end of the program, graduates will have practical experience participating in sprint ceremonies, collaborating across roles, owning real delivery work, and contributing to multiple software releases.
Who it's for
Built for every seat on the team
Gain meaningful Agile project experience in the role you're growing into—before internships or full-time offers.
- QA Engineers
- Product Managers
- Software Engineers
- Designers
- Technical Writers
- Career changers
- Computer Science students
- Recent graduates
- Self-taught builders
- Early-career professionals
What you'll experience
Assigned to a real product team
You'll work alongside product managers, engineers, designers, and QA peers. Every sprint builds on the previous one—so software development feels like an ongoing product, not a string of exercises.
- Sprint Planning
- Daily Async Standups
- Cross-functional delivery
- Backlog refinement
- Issue triage
- Release readiness
- Sprint Review
- Sprint Retrospective
Interview-ready proof
Get real LinkedIn bullet points you can talk about.
Leave with experience you can put on your profile—and explain in interviews. Not homework. Not certificates. Work from a real Agile product team.
- Example bullets
QA / Testing
- Owned exploratory and regression testing across six Agile sprints on a live product team
- Logged and prioritized defects with clear severity, repro steps, and impact for developers
- Validated release candidates end-to-end and contributed to go/no-go release decisions
- Example bullets
Product / PM
- Translated requirements into user stories with acceptance criteria for a cross-functional squad
- Facilitated backlog refinement and sprint planning against real delivery constraints
- Shipped features through full sprint cycles from discovery through release review
- Example bullets
Engineering / Design
- Collaborated across engineering, design, and QA to deliver production-quality software
- Participated in daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives in an async Agile team
- Built a portfolio of sprint artifacts—tickets, specs, and releases—you can walk through in interviews
Skills you'll practice
From ceremony to release
- Agile methodology
- Scrum framework
- Sprint planning
- Daily standups
- Sprint reviews
- Retrospectives
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Requirements clarity
- Backlog management
- User story writing
- Acceptance criteria
- Manual & exploratory testing
- Defect reporting
- Severity vs. Priority
- Release validation
- Stakeholder communication
- Developer partnership
- Documentation habits
Tools you'll use
Industry stack
- Jira
- Confluence
- Slack or Discord
- Figma or product specs
- AI teammate assistants
Deliverables
A body of work you can show
- Jira ticket history
- Sprint contributions
- Specs or test artifacts
- Issue reports
- Release notes & checklists
- Sprint participation history
- Sprint reviews
- Retrospectives
- Role-specific portfolio work
Mentor support
Guided every sprint
Human mentorship where it matters most, with AI-assisted feedback between sessions.
- Weekly sprint kickoff
- Weekly office hours
- Mentor feedback on your role work
- Q&A support throughout each sprint
- AI-assisted feedback between mentor sessions
Graduation
What completion requires
- Complete all six sprints
- Submit regular async standups
- Finish assigned role work each sprint
- Produce high-quality team artifacts
- Participate in sprint ceremonies
- Demonstrate professional communication and teamwork
Program outcome
Six releases of Agile team experience
Graduates leave with a portfolio of real delivery artifacts they can confidently discuss in interviews—and the ability to speak from experience about:
- Working within Scrum
- Collaborating across product, engineering, and QA
- Owning work from backlog to release
- Communicating clearly in async teams
- Participating in sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives
- Contributing to the delivery of production-quality software