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Fast-Track Solutions
"The right training delivered to the
right learners at the right time."
Traditional Scenario: Your organization has decided to use
Java® for new applications and to use IBM VisualAge for Java® as your
preferred development environment.
Traditional Training Solution: Find a high-quality and
cost-effective conventional 4-7 day training program to teach your
developers a set of generic skills- at least basic Java® and how to use
the VisualAge tools- via a series of scheduled workshops.
Sound familiar? Sure…
It’s the typical case that we all know how to manage.
But how would you
handle the training required by this next challenge?
Actual Recent Scenario: Your organization just acquired a
new software application that requires an online near-real-time XML
interface from two of your existing legacy applications, and you just
found out that your developers have to build the XML DTDs for the
interface. And they don’t know XML, let alone DTDs.
Fast-Track Training Solution: Teach the project team the
precise XML skills that they need to complete the interface definition
tasks on a fast-track just-in-time basis.
Your project team
doesn’t need to know everything about XML… they just need to know how to
do what they need to do to complete this project.
Fast-Track Training
Solutions…
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Your answer when you
need to quickly build competency in exactly the right skills at exactly
the right time.
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Your answer when
classic training programs that build generic skills will take too long
and teach too much.
Fast-Track Training
Solutions…
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Laser-focused - Each
solution teaches the specific set of skills required to
successfully complete a specific project.
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Tightly scoped - Each
solution includes the exact education, training and lab
components that a group requires to master the precise technical
development skills that they need to succeed on a particular application
project.
Please see below to
view the Fast-Track Training Solutions that we’ve already defined
for clients. If you don’t see your particular challenge, call us and
we’ll build a Fast-Track Training Solution
that precisely meets your needs.
Fast-Track EAI using XML DTDs and/or Schema
Scenario:
EAI software tool specifies use of XML DTDs &/or Schema to define the
content interface between source and target applications.
Solution:
Teach the DTD and/or Schema skills needed by the project team to create
the document specifications required to build the interfaces.
Duration:
1 day for DTD version; 2 days for Schema version
Fast-Track Application Architecture Strategies
Scenario:
Application planners and architects need to decide what architecture and
platforms to utilize for new application and to integrate new system with
legacy systems.
Solution:
Create an effective framework for decision-making by using models to
position the client business situation addressed by the new application.
Examine the currently available commercial architecture and platform
options, emphasizing the situation-specific pros and cons of each option,
the integration issues and future viability.
Duration:
2 days
Fast-Track to UML Literacy
Scenario:
The project requires participants (managers, project leaders, business
analysts, developers, etc.) to interpret Unified Modeling Language (UML)
artifacts, but project participants do NOT need to know how to create or
modify UML models for this project.
Solution:
Teach participants to read and understand UML documents, models and
artifacts, and shows them how to use the models to plan, scope and design
systems.
Duration:
1 day
Fast-Track WebSphere® Initiation
Scenario:
Development project or software implementation project requires the use of
the IBM WebSphere® application server as the component integrator, and the
project team needs to understand WebSphere® concepts and facilities before
receiving skills training.
Solution:
Introduce and explain application server concepts and functions, and
describe the capabilities, functions, features and uses of the particular
WebSphere® components that the team will use in the project, with a
special focus on the programming language interfaces, preparing the
learners for detailed WebSphere® training.
Duration:
2 days
Fast-Track Transition to .NET
Scenario:
Development team competent in COM environment and tools needs to convert
to the .NET Framework and tool families
Solution:
Introduce the .NET development framework and explain the key development
features and functions, focusing on the differences between COM and .NET
and how the .NET application components integrate via a common
intermediate language and runtime and by sharing a common set of base
class libraries.
Duration:
1 day (no lab) or 2 days (with lab)
Fast-Track for Java® WebService Deployment
Scenario:
The business has
successfully deployed Java/EJB web applications and now needs to rapidly
build and deploy B2B applications with similar functionality, but as
SOAP-based XML Web Services.
Solution:
Teach how to use the latest XML-based integration tools to wrap existing
Java® logic components- or an entire Java® web application – using WSDL to
expose and make available key type information and SOAP to create an
interoperable component interface.
Duration:
2 days with workshops.
Fast-Track Java® Swing
Scenario:
Development team with
basic Java® skills needs to design and build Java® applets to implement
sophisticated client-side components.
Solution:
Fast-Track Training Solution teaches developers to utilize the
Swing Java® Foundation Classes (JFCs) as a comprehensive framework for GUI
development using Java, focusing on AWT concepts, standard controls, event
handling and the Model-View-Controller architectural pattern.
Duration:
2 days
Fast-Track Project Scoping/Re-Scoping
Scenario:
Management has declared
the project, but without clear scope, or the project has begun but the
project scope has changed from the initial perceptions. In either case,
inconsistent, shifting, or conflicting expectations create an atmosphere
of fear, uncertainty and doubt.
Solution:
Teach modeling techniques to clarify scope expectations among all the
stakeholders, resulting in a clear project scope and/or an unambiguous
definition of how the project scope has changed.
Duration:
1 day with workshops applying techniques
Fast-Track to Making a Business Case
Scenario:
A systems project has
begun without first establishing a clear business case and the project is
being challenged to justify itself.
Solution:
Teach how to build a project business case through the use of stakeholder
analysis and stakeholder value analysis to uncover and determine each
affected party’s business benefits and values.
Duration:
1 day with workshops applying techniques
Fast-Track to High Productivity Group Work Sessions
Scenario:
Project has work
products that require input, decisions and/or collaboration from diverse
parties, and the parties must take ownership of the results and support
future efforts.
Solution:
Teach how to prepare and conduct highly productive group work sessions
using the JAD (Joint Application Development) approach. The solution will
also identify session leader qualities and evaluate potential session
leaders.
Duration:
2 days including workshops
Fast-Track to Business Area-Project Team Connection
Scenario:
The project team does
not understand the application business context and the prospective
application users don’t see how the new system will fit their operation.
Solution:
Teach how to build a functional connection between the business area and
the project team utilizing a Business Process Map and Use Cases to
establish a shared business domain definition and clarify system
functionality.
Duration:
2 days including workshops
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