We are are offering a series of planningIT® training courses for our customers and partners. The courses vary in length from 1-4 days and will be run by our in-house solution specialists. The location for the courses will be our Berlin office:
alfabet
Leibnizstrasse 53
10629 Berlin
2012 TRAINING PROGRAM
SESSION DESCRIPTIONS
Click on the course titles for more information.
Overview Training
planningIT Basic Overview
Course date: 17. August
Target Audience: - planningIT beginners who haven’t worked with planningIT yet
Agenda: - Basic introduction of planningIT purposes and its methodology
- planningIT capabilities and core functionalities
- Navigation and Use-case based profiles
- The GUI: guidepages, explorers, object views, workspaces, standard reports etc.
- Configuring the GUI
- planningIT workflow engine overview
- Globalization/ translation
- Mandates
- Reporting possibilities
- Data mass import and manipulation
Course Title: planningIT Basic Overview
Course date: 17. August
Price: €400
Methodology Training
Application Portfolio Governance
Course date: 20.-22. August
Target Audience: - planningIT users with similar job position like Enterprise Architects, Domain Architects, Application Owner, Technology Architect, Program Managers
Agenda: - Business architecture portfolio management
- Application documentation
- Management of application portfolio structure
- Business-, information- and technical context of the application
- Application assessment and analysis
- Application lifecycle management
- Application governance
Course Title: Application Portfolio Governance
Course date: 20.-22. August
Price: €1.350
IT Roadmapping
Course date: 23.-24. August
Target Audience: - planningIT users who have attended the Application Portfolio Governance training
- planningIT users with similar job position like Enterprise Architects, Domain Architects, Application Owner, Technology Architect, Program Managers, Solution Architect
Agenda: - Analysis of current IT Landscape
- Target architecture definition
- Definition of strategic migration plans
- Tactical and operational roll out planning
Course Title: IT Roadmapping
Course date: 23.-24. August
Price: €900
Technical Portfolio Governance
Course date: 27.-28. August
Target Audience: - Attendees of the Application Portfolio Governance training
- planningIT users with similar job position like Technology Architect, Application Owner
Agenda: - Component & platform documentation, definition of standards
- Component categories & types
- Platform architecture: different platform use case modeling approaches
- Technology portfolio management
- Technology assessment, analysis, approval and roadmap planning
Course Title: Technical Portfolio Governance
Course date: 27.-28. August
Price: €900
Business Relationship Management
Course date: 29.-30. August
Target Audience: - planningIT users who have attended the Application Portfolio Governance and Roadmapping training at least
- planningIT users with similar job position like Enterprise Architects, Domain Architects, Project Manager, Demand Managers
Agenda: - Strategy definition and assessment
- Capability assessment and analysis
- Strategy alignment and assessment with demands
- Demand prioritization
- Demand approval
Course Title: Business Relationship Management
Course date: 29.-30. August
Price: €900
IT Planning
Course date: 03.-04. September
Target Audience: - planningIT users who have attended the Application Portfolio Governance, Roadmapping and preferably Business Relationship Management training
- planningIT users with similar job position like Program Managers, Project Managers, Solution Architect, Enterprise Architects, Domain Architects, Demand Managers
Agenda: - Demand definition & As-Is-analysis
- Project definition and target scenario planning
- Business case & skill calculation and project assessment
- Linking projects to migration planning
- Planning project buckets with Enterprise Release Management
- Project approval & monitoring
Course Title: IT Planning
Course date: 03.-04. September
Price: €900
IT Risk & Compliance
Course date: 05. September
Target Audience: - planningIT users who have attended the Application Portfolio Governance, Roadmapping and preferably IT Planning training
- planningIT users with similar job position like Risk Manager, Compliance Manager, Program Managers, Project Managers, Enterprise Architects, Domain Architects, Demand Managers
Agenda: - Risk Management
- Compliance Management
- Survey
Course Title: IT Risk & Compliance
Course date: 05. September
Price: €450
IT Financial Management
Course date: 06. September
Target Audience: - planningIT users who have attended the Application Portfolio Governance, Roadmapping and preferably IT Planning training
- planningIT users with similar job position like Program Managers, Project Managers, Enterprise Architects, Domain Architects, Demand Managers
Agenda: - Cost Management
- Business Case
Course Title: IT Financial Management
Course date: 06. September
Price: €450
Technical Training
eXpand Basic
Course date: 10.-12. September
Target Audience: - planningIT users who will be working with eXpand
- Requirements: should have worked with planningIT (as a user or in a project), technical disposition (developer background would be optimal, but not a requirement)
Agenda: - Tour through alfabet eXpand / overview
- Enhancing the meta-model (custom properties, enumerations)
- Creating & editing user profiles (custom editors, custom object views, working with view schemes and class settings)
- Creating wizards
- Practical exercises / case study (group assignment)
- Configuration quality recommendations (naming conventions & best practices)
Course Title: eXpand Basic
Course date: 10.-12. September
Price: €1.200
Reporting Basic
Course date: 13.-14. September
Target Audience: - planningIT users who will be writing planningIT reports, people who plan to be working with eXpand beyond beginner level
- Requirements: beginner level knowledge in SQL, should have worked with planningIT (as a user or in a project), technical disposition (developer background would be optimal, but not a requirement)
Agenda: - Working with the query builder
- AQL: joins, instructions
- Walk-through/best practices (using the class viewer to find references, etc.)
- Practical exercises
- Interpreting customer specifications
Course Title: Reporting Basic
Course date: 13.-14. September
Price: €800
Reporting Advanced
Course date: 17.-18. September
Target Audience: - Participants must have completed the Reports Basic Training or should have adequate knowledge
Agenda: - Additional reporting functionalities
- Tabular reports and grouping by instructions
- Overview over available visual reports
- Creating visual reports (with exercises), including template-based visual reports, business chart reports and relationship matrix reports
- Working with native SQL (with exercises)
- Special knowledge for using
Course Title: Reporting Advanced
Course date: 17.-18. September
Price: €800
eXpand Advanced
Course date: 19.-20. September
Target Audience: - Attendees of both the eXpand basics training and reports basic training
- Users of eXpand, ideally with several months practical experience
- Requirements: knowledge of profile configuration and planningIT reporting is required
Agenda: - Configuring custom selectors
- Configuring custom explorers
- Configuring stereotypes
- Overview over XML objects (status concepts, rights management, etc.)
- Configuration Q&A
Course Title: eXpand Advanced
Course date: 19.-20. September
Price: €800
Administration
Course date: 21. September
Target Audience: - planningIT users who will be doing administration work related with planningIT
Agenda: - Installation
- Advanced configuration & administration
- Batch files
- Permissions concept / Security Issues
- User administration
- Routine Operational & Maintenance Tasks
Course Title: Administration
Course date: 21. September
Price: €400
alfabet Data Integration Framework (aDIF)
Course date: 24.-27. September
Target Audience: - Data manipulation and interfacing experts for planningIT
- Requirements: beginner to intermediate level knowledge in SQL, should have worked with planningIT (as a user or in a project), technical disposition (developer background would be optimal, but not a requirement)
Agenda: - Introduction: What is aDIF
- Meta Model
- aDIF development studio
- aDIF Schemes
- Data Flows
- Import Structure
- Data Mapping & Relations
- Conceptualization of Import
- Working with aDIF Debugger
- Other Import Sources
- Update Scheme
- Exporting
- Business Case
- Live Import
- Error Handling
- Data Manipulation
- Working with Mandates
- Practical Import
- aDIF Console
Course Title: alfabet Data Integration Framework (aDIF)
Course date: 24.-27. September
Price: €1.500
Advanced Administration
Course date: 28. September
Target Audience: - planningIT users who will be doing administration work related with planningIT
- planningIT users who have at least visited the Administation training
Agenda: - Introduction to the Operation Scenarios
- Change Management
- Disaster Recovery / Standby Server Implementation
- Implementing Authentication & Authorization
Course Title: Advanced Administration
Course date: 28. September
Price: €400
VAT is excluded from the above prices (where applicable).
If you have any questions or require additional information, please contact info@alfabet.com and we will respond within 24 hours to your query. Please be sure to include the session title and date of the sessions(s) you are interested in.
We look forward to seeing you soon.