Learn With Us
Good consultants make great teachers. We’re passionate about what we do, and we strongly eschew the notion that technological expertise is a mystical order of secret knowledge. Instead, we’ve channeled our excitement for our craft into a series of courses open to anyone interested. At your course’s conclusion, you’ll be tested and awarded a certification.
What
Class sizes range from 8-12 so that students receive plenty of individual attention and hands-on experience. We currently offer Chef Fundamentals classes, Scrum Master Certification classes, and ATG classes ranging from beginning to advanced. Additional courses may be available upon request.
How
Our curricula are developed in-house or in close conjunction with our partners. We have been accredited by our partners to offer these courses, and certifications awarded by Avenue Code Academy are recognized as valid by the relevant parties.
Who
Course prerequisites vary, but the most important element is curiosity and a willingness to learn in a hands-on environment.
CHEF Fundamentals
Chef Fundamentals is a two-day, comprehensive, instructor-taught training covering the basic architecture of Chef and its associated tools. This course aims to prepare key development, engineering, and operations staff to use Chef to write infrastructure. Each of the core units in the course has hands-on exercises to reinforce the material. You will learn Chef by using it. At the end of the class, students will have a code repository that can be used and modified to solve real business problems.
Two-day course agenda:
Overview of Chef
Workstation setup
Node setup
Dissecting your first Chef run
Introducing the Node object
Chef resources and recipes
Attributes, templates and cookbook dependencies
Template variables, notifications and controlling idempotency
Recipe inclusion, data bags and search roles
Environments
Using community cookbooks
Further resources
Student Requirements:
It’s best that students of this class have some familiarity and comfort with the following:
Writing code (of just about any flavor) in a text editor;
Working on the command line;
Basic system administration—installing packages, configuring those packages, starting service.
Scrum Master Certification
The two-day Certified Scrum Master course takes a practical approach to understanding how Scrum works and how managers and team members will participate using Scrum. During this class, participants will learn Scrum and Agile principles and practices through enjoyable exercises, case studies, and round table discussions. The goal of this training is to allow students to understand what to expect from Scrum and Agile, demystify its ideas, and begin using these ideas in their day-to-day practices.
Two-day course agenda:
Day 1:
Introductions
Expectations
Silent Sort exercise
The Ball Points Game
Process improvement game
Lean, Agile and Scrum
Scrum process
Sprint types exercise
Scrum Master Role
Working with the team
Change agent in an organization
Leadership and organizational aspects of implementing Scrum
Product owner role
Working with stakeholders
Responsibilities and expectations
Ideal product owner exercise
Day 2:
Retrospectives
Timeline retrospective exercise
The team
The Knot: a self-organization simulation
Team attributes, model of formation
Common issues for Scrum Masters
Product backlog, user stories and Agile requirements
User story-writing exercise
Agile estimating and planning
Agile estimating
Story points exercise
Planning Poker exercise
What is ‘Done’
Two year membership to the Scrum Alliance
Introduction to ATG
ATG Introduction is a five-day, comprehensive, instructor-taught training covering the basics of Oracle ATG Web Commerce. This course aims to prepare developers and engineers to develop e-commerce sites. Each module builds on the last, and all are specifically designed to cover significant portions of the ATG platform. At the end of this class, students will have a complete understanding of ATG Web Commerce, from environment setup to multi-site handling.
Five-day course agenda:
Module 1 – Environment setup, introduction to ATG, ATG Core Concepts, and personalization.
Module 2 – Content administration, Repository creation and modification.
Module 3 – Product catalog, product catalog JSPs, etc., inventory, pricing.
Module 4 – Shopping Carts and the Order object, Checkout Process, and Fulfillment.
Module 5 – Multi-site, scenarios, targeters, slots, and promotions.
Advanced ATG
Advanced ATG is a five-day, comprehensive, instructor-taught training covering advanced topics of Oracle ATG Web Commerce. This course aims to equip developers and engineers to further their ATG skills.
Student Requirements:
It’s best that students of this class have some familiarity and comfort with the following:
Java Programming Language, XML, SQL;
General e-commerce and merchandising concepts;
Technical Architecture Concepts;
Basics of Oracle ATG Web Commerce (introductory course completed).
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