Overview:

Our Advanced Enterprise Training workshops provide you with all the necessary technical and project management skills, knowledge, and disciplines to build robust and sophisticated enterprise software systems. Each of our workshops is highly interactive with thought-provoking lab exercises to help solidify your understanding. Our workshops are lead by top-notch instructors who are also leading practitioners in the industry, so that you will learn how to apply the skills and techniques in the real world. 

All of our workshops can be conducted on-demand, at your facilities. This means that you get the exact training right when you need it on your projects. This targeted and just-in-time training allows you to immediately apply your knowledge. The end result is accelerated learning, maximized knowledge retention, and utmost benefit to your project. Furthermore, since we come to you, there is no need to pay high travel expenses for out of town training. 

Workshops

• Lean and Agile Fundamentals
• Agile Object Design
• Refactoring
• Test Driven Development
• Design Patterns
• Effective Use Cases
• Lean and Agile Project Management

Seminar Spotlight

Agile Programming at the 27th Annual Minnesota Government Information Technology Symposium

On December 16, 2008, we delivered an all-day seminar at the 27th Annual Minnesota Government Information Technology Symposium on Agile Programming.

Agile Programming Seminar Description

Agile programming has become one of the most widely used and successful software development methodologies in the private sector. It has been shown to substantially reduce cycle time while producing increased code quality. Agile development is a collection of practices, and a philosophy of development that emphasizes lea/just-in-time development; code quality; continuous integration; small, iterative releases; simplicity; and close business/developer cooperation and openness.

While Agile has been used in the private sector for the past 10 years, it hasn’t been widely adopted in the public sector. The State of Minnesota has conducted training in Agile and has tried it out in several pilots. However, it is still widely unknown or understood within the State’s IT community.

This full day seminar introduces Agile methods and explains its potential benefits. The presentation will be a “day in the life of an Agile project.” It will include extensive hands-on exercise that will cover: Agile philosophy and practices; How to write User Stories and conduct a Planning Game; release planning; Agile meetings; test-first methodology; continuous integration.

Key Issues:

• Agile philosophy and practices
• Discus and demonstrate the benefits
• What it feels like to run an Agile project by doing a multi-iteration development in the tutorial

For those who attended the seminar on December 16, 2000, below are the references, test harness, and exercise solutions:

Agile References 2008.ppt
Agile Test Harness.xls
Agile-2008 TestHarness.ods
CRUS Solution 1.xls
CRUS Solutions 1.ods