Custom Training Programs
If you’re looking for training for a whole team or a small group, you might not need the formality of a standard curriculum and a fixed schedule. Instead, you might be interested in a custom training program, which takes full advantage of the most compelling benefits of remote real-time workshops. The schedule can be intensive or relaxed. Sessions can run from 1 hour to 1/2 day. The agenda can adapt more easily to the evolving needs of the participants. The program can run on a regular schedule or on more of an as-needed basis. The participants can change from session to session. In short, we have options that come from avoiding the constraints of a fixed-time on-site visit.
How It Works
We design a program together, based on your objectives, expectations, and constraints. We start with a general theme or topic, clarify the results you expect, draft an agenda and schedule, then we begin.
These are the typical elements of a custom learning program. We choose only as many as we need, as we need them:
- Guided practice sessions
- Ensemble programming sessions (also known as “mob programming”)
- Question and answer sessions
- Group discussions
- Working sessions, such as for exploring problems, making decisions, modeling
- Lectures and demonstrations
We could combine these into an intensive program for one whole team, resulting in a customized training course. We could run them as a weekly or monthly resource center for various people to drop in when they need advice, guidance, or time to practise. We could agree on anything, limited only by our respective schedules, our imaginations, and maybe corporate policies. (It’s fine. I understand how it is.)
Getting Started
You can get started with just a few thoughts in mind:
- A general theme, such as “Streamlining Feature Delivery” or “Better Programming Practices”.
- A few goals or objectives. They can be clear or fuzzy, vague or precise. They don’t need to be measurable (and I’m not sure that even helps).
- A particular set of participants. We design differently for a single team than we do for 20 people from various groups.
Give yourself a few minutes to write these things down, just to clarify them in your own mind. Once you’ve done that, visit the contact page to start the conversation about designing and scheduling your custom learning program.
I just need a Standard Training Course!
Sometimes you just need a standard training course! If you decide that would fit you better, then browse the course catalog.