Kiseldalens’ frequent on-site tutorials

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UML 2 - Brief Update (½ - 1 day):
What’s in IT for the enterprise. Standard-alignment levels, model testability and codegen, parameterization, configurability.

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CEO-UML X-Light in Specifying Software Requirements (1 - 2 day):
What’s in IT for the managers, process owners, domain experts, users or reengineers. Specification specifics of a knowledge industry. The key role of a standard in communication across roles and frames of reference. Configurability and customization on today’s marketplace. Several articles in Sweden. Book see Top page.

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IT & Software as a Knowledge Industry (½ - 1 day):
Process thinking and process parameters (T, C, Q), compared to the "Knowledge company" and the "Factory line". Pros and Cons of adopting a unified process. Components and configurators. Guest lecture, Soft Center Ronneby.

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Object technology - Manager's Overview (½ - 1½ day):
Business implications, background, benefits/reasons, risks, trends. Some of the basics compared to earlier approaches; the built-in agenda problem of OO, and OMG's UML-Profiles. The hazy boundary between OTS and proprietary - from monolithic packages to a "Swedish table" of subsystems and megacomponents. Object & component approaches in modern business and administration: stereotypes, business rules, parameter tables, databases, configurability, UML-tools. Several in-depth articles in Sweden; also moderator at IBS's first object-launch seminar (in English, the first ERP-one ever) with IBM and Dr. Ivar Jacobsson (object vendor links see link page).

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UML in Analysis & Design of enterprise systems, basic plus advanced
(customized ½ - 2 days' seminars)
Deeper courses with exercises: 3-8 days (courses here in Sweden are in cooperation with Informator Professional), all of them in UML-standard notation. 150+ courses taught so far, a couple of these in English. Several articles in Sweden, UK, USA.

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Customization by Configure-to-Order (½ - 1½ day):
Mass customization strategy, technology and techniques for complex products, services or software. Guest lecture, Soft Center Ronneby. My experience exchange group, Swedish Computer Society & SICS. Also suitable for organizations such as industry associations, especially in countries with many export-dependent enterprises. Book see Top page.

Knowledge Technology & Know-how Management Strategy (½ - 1 day):
The interdependence of Know-how - IT - business, in knowledge intensive activities. The role of configurable components and of configurators. My former experience exchange group and report, Swedish Computer Society; also a congress paper: Developing a Know-how Strategy, WCES2 Portugal 94 (referenced a couple of times). Speaker at several seminars (both independent and vendor). Articles in Sweden, Norway and the Czech Rep.

- along with this, guidance & consultancy, too.
Seminars are a practical way of learning more - while learning more about each other at the same time; followed by a jump-start or other consulting services where appropriate. Available in-house or in London, Prague, Crete, the Alps, Norway, or elsewhere - the location is not the point, the customer is always right. In English, Swedish, Czech, or in slow German.