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Mentoring & Custom Training

Every new software project poses unique challenges. Challenges that, almost by definition, have never been encountered by you or your team before. And while it is often possible to overcome these challenges by yourself, the doubt remains: Have you chosen the best possible solution, or will your decisions come back later to haunt you, quite possibly in the most expensive and time consuming ways?

It is our job to help you with exactly these kinds of challenges. We invest a lot of time in advance to have experience with a wide variety of scenarios. Of course we can't know everything, but thanks to our extensive network of CODE trainers, CODE authors, RDs (Microsoft Regional Directors), MVPs (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional), and our connections directly to Microsoft, we have access to a pool of experience none of our competitors can match.

Mentoring

Through our mentoring service, we make ourselves available to projects either for a limited amount of time up front, or in an ongoing fashion. Consider us a resource that is available when needed to answer questions, help decision making, and generally remove roadblocks. Of course we are also always available to get our hands dirty and write some actual code if need be.

The great benefit of having us available in a mentor role is the reduction of risk and the ability to make decisions that are much more likely to turn out to be correct in the long run, since such a vast pool of experience is made available, although the actual number of hours we need to be involved (and thus paid for) is comparatively small.

Mentoring Purchase Options

Depending on the exact scenario, mentoring can be a fixed-price, one-time engagement, or it can be a time & materials, hourly block, or even service agreement setup. The most appropriate setup depends on customer preferences and the exact nature of the engagement. Details can be determined quickly in a short discussion with our sales people.

Custom Training

Would you rather your team attended some generic training class or have the team trained in exactly the things they will need to know for their next project? If your answer is the later, then custom CODE Training is the right choice for you. (If your answer is the former, then check out www.codemag.com/training for our schedule of standard classes).

In our custom training classes, we first analyze your exact need and timeframe and then put together an outline and a schedule. The actual content varies entirely based on a customer's need. Some custom training classes are mostly based on our vast pool of training content put together in a fashion that is most appropriate for you. In other case, some (or all) of the training content is developed specifically for your need. In most real-world scenarios, the majority of the content is drawn from our pool with only some content being developed from scratch.

Of course custom training can also include topics that are entirely specific to your needs. In many cases, we include training specific to the architecture and implementation patterns chosen by a specific customer.

Custom Training Purchase Options

As the name indicates, custom training is completely different in every case. Most of the time however, pricing for custom training is quite straightforward and simply based on the number of days of the actual training as well as the number of days we estimate custom training prep is going to take (if any). Plus of course expenses. Based on this information, we arrive at a fixed price, which ensures that there are no surprises for anyone.

Related Information

You may also find our standard training classes interesting: www.codemag.com/training