Training & Workshops
Asynchrony believes in sharing our wealth of expertise to help organizations meet both immediate and future needs. From XML and Java to leading-edge approaches like agile development and Web Ontology Language, we provide advanced training to enterprise IT staffs in search of high-level applied knowledge.
To paraphrase the old adage, we'd much rather teach people to catch their own fish.
Our training services offer individual curricula with the scope and content tailored to the client’s aims. Every program is completely customized and related to specific issues. We understand that canned courses and rote exercises cannot meaningfully address the unique needs of any enterprise, and our deep reservoir of expertise enables us to present instruction that simply isn't available in any prepackaged training program.
We don't want to set up a permanent encampment in any organization, so we instead teach our clients to apply technology and programming methodology to their own real-world scenarios. To paraphrase the old adage, we'd much rather teach people to catch their own fish.
This knowledge transfer can take a variety of forms, depending on the client’s needs. In some cases, we literally sit shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients and walk them through the process of writing code, line by line. Other times, a workshop in a classroom setting may be more appropriate. Training can take place at our offices or the client’s and can last as long as necessary (but, we hope, not a minute longer). Through all these variables, one constant remains: helping our clients attain the understanding they need to meet the particular challenges they face.
Agile Development
One area of training that Asynchrony has come to specialize in is helping organizations employ agile development methods. This doesn't refer to a programming language or any particular piece of technology; agile development is a methodology, a disciplined process of software development. In contrast to more rigid earlier methodologies, agile development emphasizes adaptation to change rather than resistance to it, and people rather than processes.
Agile developers work closely with clients and users every day throughout a project, and measure progress in terms of actual working software, not adherence to a rigid plan. The process emphasizes simplicity, self-organization, harnessing change, and continuous attention to technical excellence.
Since the agile development movement coalesced in 2001 around the Manifesto of Agile Software Development, the agile perspective promises to utterly transform software engineering. Asynchrony has found our agile development training expertise in high demand among companies seeking to gain competitive advantage through this powerful new approach.