On-Line Training Programs – The latest Addition to our Training Offerings

Since the launch of the CasmaranTraining.com website over two years ago, we have focused on providing a range of high-quality training and consultancy services.

Most of our training offerings have so far been ISACA licensed CMMI Training courses, reinforced by a range of downloadable additional resources such as our summary sheets, and whilst we will continue to offer these, we are today launching the latest enhancement to our training options.

In addition to our usual, instructor-led training courses, we are now adding in some additional on-line self-paced courses that can be taken at your convenience, direct from our web site. These on-line programs will come in a range of different formats including:

• Bite-Sized Learning Programs that provide a deep dive on specific topics and can be used to supplement some of our other training offerings. These programs will initially be available for free from our website.

• Larger, on-line Learning Programs that are effectively full courses but which can be taken at your own pace. Some of these will be supplemented by scheduled interactive sessions (workshops, discussion groups and activities) and a dedicated collaborative group area for students to discuss and share information. These programs will be chargeable but at very competitive rates.

• Supplemental Programs to add extra value to our existing training courses by adding supporting information and resources to reinforce some of the concepts that are encountered in the formal courses and to provide an invaluable resource before, during and after the formal training sessions. Supplementary programs will only be available to students of the formal training courses to which they relate and are provided at no extra cost.

We will be adding new programs as they become available over the coming weeks and months, but to give you a taster of what is to come our first Bite-Sized Learning Program is now live and can be signed up to for free.

Although ‘agile-like’ practices pre-date it by many decades, “An Introduction to the Agile Manifesto” examines the seminal declaration which became the cornerstone for the agile development approaches that have underpinned most of the agile transformations that have taken place in recent years.

This Bite-Sized Learning Program discusses both the value statements of the Agile Manifesto and the 12 foundational principles upon which the values are based. No prior knowledge is necessary, and in many places, the program provides examples of the principles applied to non-IT organizations.

You can sign up to this program here.

We are currently working on our next Programs and in the coming months hope to be adding the following in our first phase:

• Supplementary Program for the CMMI ‘Building Organizational Capability’ course

  
  

• A Bite-Sized Program on the Goal-Question-Metric Technique

  
  

• A Stand-alone program on the application of Agile concepts to non-IT Organizations

We hope these programs will be both informative and helpful and welcome your feedback on them, along with suggestions for future programs.