Varied Delivery

Everware-CBDI SOA training and educational offerings are delivered via a variety of methods

Train-the-Trainer

Everware-CBDI can facilitate large-scale rollout, such as across hundreds of consultants in a professional services organization, by providing train-the-trainer programs with access to the source materials for customization, or translation into local language.

Certification

eLearning and classroom training and education can lead to exam-based certification.

Varied Scenarios

Everware-CBDI SOA training and education supports a variety of scenarios and requirements. For example,

• Establishing a Base-Line Capability. eLearning, Classroom and Certification-based approaches enable a base-line capability to be established for a variety of audiences across an organization
• Equipping Projects and Programs. Classroom and Workshop approaches are an ideal way to ensure that a project or program starts on the right foot, with a clear understanding of the deliverables they must produce, the process and techniques involved, and how they will be governed.
• Workshops enable these activities to be considered in the context of the organization's existing practices, or to consider stakeholder input to identify opportunities or issues that may arise. In a workshop, the team might work with Everware-CBDI consultants to produce some 'first cut' or high-level deliverables so that no time is wasted.
• Fast Track. The Fast Track or 'boot camp' is a popular way to condense the agendas of several education topics into one in order to train a group of architects or a project team in a short focused period, perhaps at the outset of a major project or program. Typically combining elements of Service Architecture, Service Specification, plus some specific modules that reflect the context of the project – for example, Application Modernization or SOA Governance
• Service Delivery with Training and Education. Beyond workshops, organizations may engage Everware-CBDI in a more extensive combination of service delivery and education whereby for example, Everware-CBDI consultants participate in, or assume responsibility for projects that produce a major deliverable, whilst at the same time educating, guiding and mentoring the rest of the organization's team. See our Services brochure for further details
• Tailor Made. Experience shows us that no two scenarios are quite the same and we welcome discussion regarding customizing education and workshops agendas to suit specific requirements.

Beyond the core topics covered in this brochure, Everware-CBDI can add additional modules covering subjects such as Enterprise Architecture, Application Modernization, or Business Modeling for SOA

Target Audiences for SOA Training and Education

The Everware-CBDI integrated skills development products are unique:

• By supporting a broader set of roles not just architects
• As professionally developed learning products, not just videos of face to face classes, minimizing learning time
• Providing options for testing – to ensure personnel have completed eLearning modules and Certification – to provide professional validation of competence from a respected, independent authority

Consultants:

• Get trained and certified with minimum cost and time
• Achieve higher rate
• Improve your skills                              

Service Providers:

• Bring large numbers of personnel up to Fundamentals and or Practitioner level very rapidly
• Certify your competencies with industry analyst surveys
• Confirm your competencies for customers
• Deliver higher value
• Improve the quality of the delivered service
• In the fastest time and lowest cost

Resource and Program Managers:

• Ensure your entire teams have skills fit for purpose
• Reduce ramp up time
• Implement Just in Time training to optimize resources and schedules
• Ensure a consistent understanding and nomenclature
• Exert control over skills supplied by third parties
• Integrate third party personnel into the team in fastest time and lowest cos

Education Managers:

• Deliver consistent SOA skills for the broader set of roles
• Provide cost effective skills development options
• With minimum impact on delivery teams
• Integrate management and reporting into the enterprise LMS

 Summary of Current SOA Training and Education Services