In applications development there is a lot of synergy.
For example - if you identify that you have a resource unit that needs training and a Product Owner with no budget you can satisfy the needs of the Product Owner by assigning a task as T / R&D / PD
Training
Research and Development
Personal Development
If a task is assigned to Personal Development you should register it under project name Xenophon and instruct your resource unit to conduct the task at home recording the time under TimeBank.
At the end of the year you can evaluate the TimeBank hours and the value of the new functionality to the business and make a discretionary bonus [ayment or increase the salary by a number of scale points or grade.
Thos is a way to allow employees to keep up with technology and to evaluate new technology that the company should be using. This would then drive out a new task of SE - Software evaluation which could be released to the team at a fraction of the cost of normal development - this would help Product Owners with limited budgets.
One exercise that we will be doing is the upgrade from ASP.Net to MVC / SQL Server.
I delivered functionality using ASP.NET / SqL Server for my City and Guilds Delivery Of Learning Training.
The City and Guilds refused to accept my online forms demanding paper solutions - an argument then erupted resulting in me getting my money back - I had found the course on the internet before joining the course - The document that I had detailed all the exercises which I completed before joining the course.
My objective for joining the course was to find the definitive database for training. In the introduction i was told by my tutor that there was no such thing and that she hated IT.
I was upset - at the time I was BETA Testing Microsoft office so I delivered my course work before the day of training in Beta Format. The course went on for three months when I was told that I was failing the course because I had not submitted any course work. I was polite - I said that I had but it was taken up by management. I had to go to the tutors office which were off site to show her my e'mails. When she tried to open the documents they were unreadable. I politely said that you omitted to tell us what version of Office we were to use. I said that I would resubmit the work one exercise at a time on the basis that the work was marked and returned the next day. My tutor refused this option and insisted that I submit all my work at once and it was up to her to say when it would be marked.
I left the course and insisted on my money back - I had completed all the course under my own steam.
I was banned from the college and was not allowed to talk to my classmates in the refectory!
It was some years latter when I was Sponsored by Studio 1 that I got my PTLLS Qualification.
I now deliver On-Line Courses under BSG Elite.
As a part of this course you will be asked to create TrainIT - City and Guilds Forms using MVC.
I attempted to learn MVC without a manual / training book and struggled - it was only when i recieved training material from Richard Gilbert that I discovered that MVC is totally new architecture - not a upgrade of ASP.NET. Sadly I have had an accident with my Visual Studio machine and I can no longer evaluate MVC - which is good as I neeed to focus on generating training content. We have Richard to help us showcase functionality.
Another exercise that we will be undertaking is to perforrn analysis - we will look at Withington Golf Clus ands Ellesmere Golf club ad produce a report on functionality - this will introduce you to report writing.
You will look t the program source created by Club Systems which is copy write and define the functionality in a design matrix. Once the design matrix has been created you will publish it to the directors of Withington Golf Club with an observation of what should be static and what should be active pages. Plus you will report the differences between WGC and Ellesmere.
You will make recommendations for a MVC / SQL Server development and you will conduct development in Bootstrap / MVC / SQL Server. One piece of functionality which you will deliver is the competition returs for a Fourball Better Ball.
You will then report for club systems your thought of having their business upgrade to MVC.