Use the right surface for the task
Move deliberately across code completion, Chat, GitHub.com and Copilot CLI instead of treating every task as the same prompt.
GitHub Copilot training
GitHub Copilot, from suggestion to team capability
Hands-on training for development teams ready to use Copilot deliberately, customise it to their repositories, govern it responsibly and measure adoption beyond seat counts.
The outcome
Not a tour of buttons A better way of working
Give Copilot better context
Use repository, path-specific and agent instructions to make project standards and validation expectations explicit.
Delegate with control
Structure bounded agentic tasks, choose the right customisation, and review generated work before it becomes trusted code.
Build a measurable rollout
Connect enablement to adoption, engagement, feature use and pull-request flow without reducing success to one vanity metric.
Built for
The people who shape the engineering system
Developers
Build better daily habits across implementation, testing, debugging and review.
DevOps and platform teams
Apply Copilot to terminal, automation, repository and operational workflows.
Engineering leaders
Set practical guardrails and measure whether enablement is changing how teams work.
Curriculum
Current capabilities, connected into practice
The final agenda is confirmed during scoping so it reflects the Copilot surfaces, policies and priorities your organisation actually uses.
Core workflows
Build a reliable daily practice across code completion, Copilot Chat and agent mode.
- Prompting with the right scope and context
- Ask, edit, plan and agent mode workflows
- Reviewing, testing and correcting generated code
Agentic development
Move from interactive assistance to bounded delegated work.
- Coding agent and Copilot code review workflows
- Copilot CLI, built-in agents and subagents
- Task definition, steering, review and handback
Repository customisation
Make project conventions, specialist roles and quality expectations reusable.
- Repository-wide and path-specific instructions
- AGENTS.md, prompt files and team conventions
- Custom agents and scoped responsibilities
Skills, hooks and integrations
Extend Copilot with repeatable workflows, deterministic checks and connected tools.
- Agent skills for repeatable team workflows
- Lifecycle hooks for validation and policy checks
- Model Context Protocol integrations
Governance and safe use
Create usable guardrails for teams and administrators.
- Organisation and enterprise policy controls
- Feature access, models and tool permissions
- Human review, security and responsible usage practices
Adoption and outcomes
Turn a workshop into an enablement programme that can improve over time.
- Adoption and engagement signals
- Feature usage, acceptance and trust trends
- Pull-request lifecycle and enablement follow-through
Programme brief
Designed around your team, repositories and rollout
Every engagement starts with a short scoping conversation. We choose the right depth, labs and platform surfaces before the workshop, not while the cohort is waiting.
- Duration
- 1–2 days
- Primary audience
- Developers and DevOps engineers
- Delivery
- Virtual or on-site
- Formats
- Private teams or scheduled public workshops
- Approach
- Hands-on exercises with practice-informed examples
Practice-informed
Taught from delivery experience, not feature slides
Fedorai founder Arafat Tehsin is a Microsoft MVP in AI, applied AI leader, solution architect and international speaker. The programme brings that technical and teaching experience into a format designed for working teams.
About Arafat and Fedorai Questions
What teams usually ask before booking
How long is the GitHub Copilot training?
The core programme runs for one to two days. The final duration depends on the cohort, the selected modules and how much time is reserved for hands-on exercises.
Is the programme suitable for beginners?
It is designed primarily for working developers and DevOps engineers. We confirm the expected development experience, tools and prerequisites during scoping so the labs meet the cohort at the right level.
Can the workshop use our repositories and standards?
Private team engagements can adapt examples to your technology stack, repository conventions and business context where access, confidentiality and workshop setup permit.
Does the training cover governance and organisational rollout?
Yes. The programme can include policy controls, access decisions, safe-use practices, repository standards and the adoption metrics available to organisation and enterprise stakeholders.
Which GitHub Copilot surfaces are covered?
The final agenda is matched to the surfaces your organisation uses. It can cover IDE workflows, GitHub.com, Copilot CLI, repository customisation, agents, skills and MCP integrations where relevant.
Is this certification or exam-preparation training?
No. The programme is designed around practical team capability and real development workflows rather than preparation for a certification exam.