Architecture and Methodologies

This Certified Agile Service Manager (CASM) Certification training course provides an introduction to Agile Service Management – the application and integration of agile thinking into service management processes and process design projects. A Certified Agile Service Manager (CASM) is the operational counterpart to a Certified Scrum Master (CSM). Working together, ScrumMasters and Agile Service Managers can instil agile thinking into the entire IT organization as the basis of a DevOps culture.

This Introduction to Agile Development for Non-Technical Teams training course will introduce attendees to the essential methods, skills and practices of agile development used when working with agile technology development teams. It will provide a plain language translation of key agile principles, concepts and tools used within technical and development teams for project management and product development.  This course will provide attendees with a great introduction to agile to help non-technical individuals and teams to work more effectively with technical teams. It will help attendees to understand agile methods and practices and how they can be applied more broadly on technology projects and products.

This High Performing Agile Teams training course will introduce attendees to the essential methods, skills and values of agile teams.  It will provide a clear understanding of agile team structures, roles, tools and practices. The course will introduce approaches and methods for increasing and sustaining performance.  

Agile is an approach to software development that has rapidly become mainstream. Incorporating the Agile philosophy into IT organizations has been shown to more rapidly deliver working software, increase quality, and decrease time-to-market. Using a mixture of techniques that together form modern Agile practices such as Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), user stories, test-driven development, etc, teams can significantly improve their productivity and morale. This Applying Scrum – Agile Principles and Practices training course explains this approach’s values, key techniques, and how each Agile team member contributes to success.

This Certified Agile Process Owner CAPO Certification training course describes process owner responsibilities and provides the education needed to oversee the design, reengineering and improvement of IT Service Management (ITSM) processes; particularly in the context of Agile Service Management. Participants learn how to use Agile and Lean principles and practices to put in place ‘just enough’ process and how to continually align process performance with overall business goals.

This Being Agile: Teams and Leadership training course is for senior leaders and managers in enterprise organisations. Developed for and delivered to both the Public Sector and Private Organisations, this customised course provides an overview of agile culture and leadership to support implementation of agile within teams, departments and more broadly across an organisation.

This Being Agile in Retail training course will introduce attendees to the essential methods, skills and values of agile working in a business and teams context. It will provide a clear understanding of agile principles, concepts and tools that can be immediately implemented. Work faster, think clearer and improve your individual, team and business agility with this Being Agile in Business course.

In this Agile Testing with Acceptance Test Driven Design (ATDD) and Behavior Driven Development (BDD) training course you will learn how to build quality into your product, while controlling scope and avoiding duplicated efforts. We will learn how to apply a ‘whole-team’ approach to quality and how to orchestrate feedback from your tests in order to be extremely effective. We will learn why the traditional approaches to test automation don’t yield the returns we require and why these approaches do not increase quality despite, being expensive and costly to maintain.

The application of Agile principles and practices on software development projects enables a project team to quickly develop working software that meets business needs. In Scrum, teams work in 2-4 week Sprints to produce production-quality software driven by business priorities using an empirical, adaptive approach. This Agile Enablement Workshop training course provides an in depth understanding of how Agile and Scrum teams deliver business value.

Agile software development employs certain principles and practices that enable development teams to quickly build and deploy high quality software products. An example of one Agile practice is to establish the Scrum Product Owner role. The Agile philosophy is to approach the system under development as a holistic product, not a series of disparate projects. This Agile Product Owner Enablement training course explores the responsibilities and expectations of the Product Owner role. Students will learn how a Product Owner can infuse business priorities, goals, and vision, into a development team and thereby build highly functional systems.

This Agile Approaches for Remote Teams training course encourages teams to organise themselves, helping them get the best results,face challenges and continuously improve.  ​Agile gives teams a sense of ownership and control, providing them with ​key practices and tools to support their continued well-being,performance and growth.

This Introduction to Agile Architecture Training course examines the relationship between the Agile methodology and the practice of Architecture. It is a mixture of lectures and exercises. The lectures provide instruction on the concepts and open up meaningful discussions; the exercises have students work through a case study to help deepen their knowledge. The course begins with defining what the Agile methodology and the practice of Architecture are and continues by looking at their strengths and weakness. An apparent dichotomy exists, and an exploration of industry practices demonstrate possible ways to resolve the conflict. The course ends by looking at how the best of both may be achievable.

With the impact of the pandemic, students are looking forward to home learning, remote study, and virtual examination becoming at least in part, the norm.
To adapt to this new way of learning and perform their best they need time and task management skills to plan and manage their study effectively, and balance it with work and life.
This Agile Study Skills Webinar training course encourages students to organise themselves and provides a tactile and practical way to help students to map out their study and revision plans, helping them get the best results and reduce the stress of feeling overwhelmed.

This Improving Agility – Beyond Technical Excellence training course is designed for technical teams looking to improve their performance beyond that of technical excellence.  The course will explore agility beyond the development of software, looking at team dynamics, communication and visibility, product ownership, working with the client, agile workspaces and look at the impact of agile software delivery on the wider organisation and how you can work with inter-related teams in an agile way.

Agile software development employs certain principles and practices that enable development teams to quickly build and deploy high quality software products. An example of one Agile practice is to establish the Scrum Product Owner role. The Agile philosophy is to approach the system under development as a holistic product, not a series of disparate projects. This Agile Product Owner Enablement training course explores the responsibilities and expectations of the Product Owner role. Students will learn how a Product Owner can infuse business priorities, goals, and vision, into a development team and thereby build highly functional systems.

This Certified Agile Process Owner CAPO Certification training course describes process owner responsibilities and provides the education needed to oversee the design, reengineering and improvement of IT Service Management (ITSM) processes; particularly in the context of Agile Service Management. Participants learn how to use Agile and Lean principles and practices to put in place ‘just enough’ process and how to continually align process performance with overall business goals.

This Certified Agile Service Manager (CASM) Certification training course provides an introduction to Agile Service Management – the application and integration of agile thinking into service management processes and process design projects. A Certified Agile Service Manager (CASM) is the operational counterpart to a Certified Scrum Master (CSM). Working together, ScrumMasters and Agile Service Managers can instil agile thinking into the entire IT organization as the basis of a DevOps culture.

In this Agile Testing with Acceptance Test Driven Design (ATDD) and Behavior Driven Development (BDD) training course you will learn how to build quality into your product, while controlling scope and avoiding duplicated efforts. We will learn how to apply a ‘whole-team’ approach to quality and how to orchestrate feedback from your tests in order to be extremely effective. We will learn why the traditional approaches to test automation don’t yield the returns we require and why these approaches do not increase quality despite, being expensive and costly to maintain.

Behavior Driven Development (BDD) training course equips teams with practices, tools, and techniques to take their software development processes to the next level. This course provides a hands-on workshop to introduce BDD concepts and equip teams with practical experience in creating BDD feature files, scenarios, and complete working applications.

You will learn BDD through a series of practical exercises utilizing Cucumber, Maven, and the Eclipse IDE to gain hands-on experience with BDD..

This Certified Agile Process Owner CAPO Certification training course describes process owner responsibilities and provides the education needed to oversee the design, reengineering and improvement of IT Service Management (ITSM) processes; particularly in the context of Agile Service Management. Participants learn how to use Agile and Lean principles and practices to put in place ‘just enough’ process and how to continually align process performance with overall business goals.

This Certified Agile Service Manager (CASM) Certification training course provides an introduction to Agile Service Management – the application and integration of agile thinking into service management processes and process design projects. A Certified Agile Service Manager (CASM) is the operational counterpart to a Certified Scrum Master (CSM). Working together, ScrumMasters and Agile Service Managers can instil agile thinking into the entire IT organization as the basis of a DevOps culture.

Using technology to solve an immediate, pressing problem is relatively easy. Designing and implementing a robust architecture that serves the immediate needs to the enterprise and is consistent with the long-term strategic vision of the organization is a bit more difficult. Enterprise Architecture (EA) is the practice of applying a comprehensive and rigorous method for describing, defining, designing, and ultimately deploying a framework that addresses business architecture, performance management, organizational structure, and process architecture.

This Introduction to Enterprise Architecture two day training course provides a comprehensive introduction to the discipline and methodology of Enterprise Architecture (EA). The course is designed for architects and team leads who are new to EA. It will provide the high level concepts behind EA, its value proposition within enterprises, and an understanding of how to apply EA in practice. It will also discuss the various roles and responsibilities involved in effective EA adoption. In addition to high-level concepts and methodologies, this course will provide a practical understanding of how EA is developed in a step-by-step process.

This Fundamentals of Architectural Thinking training course, through its nine chapter modules, is designed to provide the knowledge and skills necessary to build robust, scalable, and maintainable architectures. It teaches a methodology and a set of techniques that show how to ensure that all aspects of architecture are covered and documented. It also instructs students in a set of architectural structures and patterns essential in building enterprise architectures. Particular attention is given to topics that improve the precision and quality of developed systems. Every module ends with a quiz to ensure mastery of the subject matter.

This Introduction to Solution and Software Architecture training course introduces the students to the fundamentals of Solution and Software Architecture. Within the broader strategic vision that Enterprise Architecture (EA) provides, there is a need to provide structure and guidance around the more tactical solution architecture capabilities that are developed to ensure they are consistent with the broader EA strategy. Within the context of each solution stack, there is additionally a need to properly craft software solutions so that they are in compliance with and help to enable the vision of the larger solution architecture. This course provides the critical linkage between Enterprise, Solution, and Software Architectures.

Upcoming schedule: Live Online GMT +01:00, Tuesday 08 October 2024 at 09:30 to Friday 11 October 2024 at 17:00 - (Duration: 4 days)

This Linux certification training course teaches in-depth skills in the basics of Linux Administration, and prepares one to take the LPIC1 Part 1 Linux Administrator LPI certification exam. This course covers fundamental Linux skills such as file management and manipulation, text processing, command line use, package management, filesystems, hardware, and many more.

Upcoming schedule: Live Online GMT +01:00, Tuesday 08 October 2024 at 09:30 to Friday 11 October 2024 at 17:00 - (Duration: 4 days)

This Linux certification training course teaches in-depth skills in the basics of Linux Administration, and prepares one to take the LPIC1 Part 1 Linux Administrator LPI certification exam. This course covers fundamental Linux skills such as file management and manipulation, text processing, command line use, package management, filesystems, hardware, and many more.

In this DevOps for the Agile Enterprise training course, you’ll gain an understanding of the role of DevOps in a Scaled Agile organization. Unlike other training that focuses only the mechanics of DevOps, Icon’s DevOps for the Agile Enterprise course explores the role of DevOps in the context of the entire IT value stream, and prepares you to successfully plan and implement DevOps capabilities that significantly extend the benefits of Agile transformations. This includes understanding the fullspectrum software delivery ecosystem, where Agile transformations typically are and are not effective, how Agile and DevOps are “better together,” and what people, processes and technology must be aligned throughout the organization, to achieve true enterprise agility.

This Improving Agility – Beyond Technical Excellence training course is designed for technical teams looking to improve their performance beyond that of technical excellence.  The course will explore agility beyond the development of software, looking at team dynamics, communication and visibility, product ownership, working with the client, agile workspaces and look at the impact of agile software delivery on the wider organisation and how you can work with inter-related teams in an agile way.

This Agile Approaches for Remote Teams training course encourages teams to organise themselves, helping them get the best results,face challenges and continuously improve.  ​Agile gives teams a sense of ownership and control, providing them with ​key practices and tools to support their continued well-being,performance and growth.

In this DevOps for the Agile Enterprise training course, you’ll gain an understanding of the role of DevOps in a Scaled Agile organization. Unlike other training that focuses only the mechanics of DevOps, Icon’s DevOps for the Agile Enterprise course explores the role of DevOps in the context of the entire IT value stream, and prepares you to successfully plan and implement DevOps capabilities that significantly extend the benefits of Agile transformations. This includes understanding the fullspectrum software delivery ecosystem, where Agile transformations typically are and are not effective, how Agile and DevOps are “better together,” and what people, processes and technology must be aligned throughout the organization, to achieve true enterprise agility.

This Being Agile: Teams and Leadership training course is for senior leaders and managers in enterprise organisations. Developed for and delivered to both the Public Sector and Private Organisations, this customised course provides an overview of agile culture and leadership to support implementation of agile within teams, departments and more broadly across an organisation.

With the impact of the pandemic, students are looking forward to home learning, remote study, and virtual examination becoming at least in part, the norm.
To adapt to this new way of learning and perform their best they need time and task management skills to plan and manage their study effectively, and balance it with work and life.
This Agile Study Skills Webinar training course encourages students to organise themselves and provides a tactile and practical way to help students to map out their study and revision plans, helping them get the best results and reduce the stress of feeling overwhelmed.

This Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Data Management one day interactive seminar addresses the critical issues data and information management professionals will encounter in a SOA environment. It will define the five layers of SOA and the data management skills, methods and models essential to each layer.

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for Managers training course shows demonstrable signs of simplifying software integration. It can reduce the cost of integration significantly. The approach is not new but may be a paradigm shift for many organizations. This is analogous to e-Business, which is essentially client-server computing, but ushered many new possibilities.

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a powerful and flexible solution architecture for systems integration, resource sharing, and enabling agility in the modern enterprise. SOA promotes an alignment between business and IT and allows disparate domains and information systems to collaborate together as part of a cohesive enterprise. Although SOA possesses a lot of potential for enterprises, there are plenty of things that could go wrong in attempting to apply it to your organization.

This SOA Foundation Workshop 3-day training course will introduce you to SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), one of the most popular business initiatives among corporations and government organizations today. Service Oriented Architecture provides a more agile and comprehensive way to integrate information systems and businesses processes than more traditional approaches. Students will be exposed to a broad range of enterprise SOA subjects, providing a solid foundational understanding of both business and technology elements of SOA.

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a powerful and flexible solution architecture for systems integration, resource sharing, and enabling agility in the modern enterprise.  SOA promotes an alignment between business and IT and allows disparate domains and information systems to collaborate together as part of a cohesive enterprise.  Although SOA possesses a lot of potential for enterprises, there are plenty of things that could go wrong in attempting to apply it to your organization.

This SOA Data Modeling training course is designed for the data modelers who are considering using SOA as the next generation methodology for Enterprise Application Integration. Data modeling plays a key role in SOA where the chief concern is data integration between applications. Traditionally data modeling has been limited to Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS). This course will help you extend your existing RDBMS modeling knowledge to the SOA world.

This Application Modernization and SOA Concepts 2-day training course will explore the trend around ‘application modernization’ and introduce you to a wide range of techniques and strategies for modernizing legacy systems including Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business Process Management (BPM), Web services, Message Oriented Middleware (MOM), and Web 2.0. Special emphasis will be giving to SOA and service-based solutions for modernizing legacy systems. Service Oriented Architecture provides a more agile and comprehensive way to integrate information systems and businesses processes than more traditional approaches.

IT governance provides a thorough management process for IT activities. All aspects of IT, starting from strategy to execution, are closely managed and continuously improved. SOA adds new challenges and hence IT governance processes need to be extended.

This Implementing SOA Governance training course builds a foundation by covering IT governance. Many organizations may not have IT governance put in place. This foundation will be especially beneficial to them. The course builds on this foundation by covering SOA governance.

In this Mastering XML for SOA and Web Services training course you will learn fundamentals necessary to use XML in the data-driven applications in SOA and Web Services. Through lecture and hands-on lab exercises, you will learn the essentials of data interoperability using XML, write well-formed XML documents, enforce document validity, use XSLT and stylesheets to transform XML documents, and get an introduction to XML programming options. You will also learn best practices for how to evolve XML syntax and structure over time and how XML related to some of the fundamental technologies used by Web Services.

This Modeling Business Process using IBM Process Designer 8.0 training course teaches how to model and optimize business processes using IBM Process Designer (formerly WebSphere Lombardi edition). Students will learn the theory of BPMN. They will be able to capture the description of a business process in a use case and then convert that into a model.

The practice of Test Driven Development (TDD) allows an agile development team to efficiently convert user defined requirements into a well-designed, fully tested working implementation that not only meets the business need, but will also be easy and safe to extend, maintain, and enhance over time. Rather than spending weeks or months on an extended “design phase,” agile teams use TDD to evolve and optimize their design and implementation over time to meet the team’s evolving understanding of the business requirements.

In this Agile Testing with Acceptance Test Driven Design (ATDD) and Behavior Driven Development (BDD) training course you will learn how to build quality into your product, while controlling scope and avoiding duplicated efforts. We will learn how to apply a ‘whole-team’ approach to quality and how to orchestrate feedback from your tests in order to be extremely effective. We will learn why the traditional approaches to test automation don’t yield the returns we require and why these approaches do not increase quality despite, being expensive and costly to maintain.

In this Mastering XML for SOA and Web Services training course you will learn fundamentals necessary to use XML in the data-driven applications in SOA and Web Services. Through lecture and hands-on lab exercises, you will learn the essentials of data interoperability using XML, write well-formed XML documents, enforce document validity, use XSLT and stylesheets to transform XML documents, and get an introduction to XML programming options. You will also learn best practices for how to evolve XML syntax and structure over time and how XML related to some of the fundamental technologies used by Web Services.