10th to 21st February,2003
InWEnt, the German organization for international human resources development, worldwide advanced training and intercultural dialogue has asked Hoffmann&Reif to conceptualize and implement a 10 days training course for IT consultants and senior IT managers in February 2003 in Berlin, Germany (please read further information about InWEnt at the bottom line of this page). The participants coming from Indian, Eastern European, Southern African and German IT consultancies and institutions are engaged in the development of environmental information systems, content management solutions and elearning services. Because of the specific consultancy model based on the ZOPE open source technology and the ZOPE open source product "ZMS" as "proof of concept" the participants will not just be trained in a set of specific content management and publishing features. Furthermore they will become the owners of a comprehensive tool box with hard and soft skills and software solutions that they can offer as a managed service to their customers almost immediately after completing the training programme.
This training programme will provide a significant impact on the businesses of the participants. Open source based (learning) content management systems and services are on high demand on the market places anywhere. Because of the publishing concepts behind ZOPE/ZMS the uptake of the new services into the portfolio of the participants enterprises will be swift and direct.
The participants will be able to manage and implement business application services with sound margins. The participating companies and institution will benefit from:
The action orientated training programme in Berlin consists of transfer phases in which the participants will do specific tasks of their customer projects live on the Internet. They will be coached by experienced software engineers.
The workshop participants will become familiar with the following topics.
Participation in this week requires professional skills in Object Oriented Softare Design and Development and several years of software engineering experience in practice.
The integration of ZMS professional services into the business portfolio of Application Service Providers or Training Providers is supported by a "ZMS business certificate". In addition to the training and coaching when setting up the application services, the licencee may make use of the training manuals for his or her services. The "ZMS business certificate" is only provided after a successful examination.