TenForce provides a curriculum of professional trainings on the topic of Scrum Methodology and Semantic Technologies.
Semantic Technology Training Suite
New!Getting Ready for the Semantic Web with TopQuadrant
Course 1Introduction to Semantic Technology
Agile and Scrum Training Suite
Course 1Agile Development & Management – an introduction
Course 2Introduction to Scrum
Course 3Scrum For Managers
Course 4Agile Project Management for ScrumMasters
Course 5ScrumMaster Certification
Course objectives
A complete 3-day hands-on training on Semantic Web Technology and Introduction to TopBraid Suite.
This is TopQuadrant's first public offering this year in Europe of this popular and well-established training!
Target Group
For everybody who wants to know more and learn about Semantic Web Technology
In this training you will
- Understand Semantic Capabilities - Application Areas, Business Value and Success Stories
- Know the status of W3C's semantic layers - languages, standards and technology road map
- Explore differences between semantic technology vs. relational DB and object technologies
- Explore the roles of kinds of semantic web products and tools in a semantic deployment architecture
- Gain experience using TopBraid Composer to create, manage and utilize semantic models
- Use SPARQL to query, filter and transform semantic data
- Gain hands-on experience building a new class of applications ("model-driven") to simplify access to distributed information
- Import information from many common data sources (RSS, spreadsheets, databases, etc.)
- Examine ontology-driven approaches for merging and integrating data
The 3-day training costs $1.500 per person. Group discounts are available.
This includes all material, coffee and tidbits.
Or register using the following:
- By Telephone:
- +32 16 31 48 60
- By Mail:
- training@tenforce.com
Course objectives
A 1-day course showing you what Semantic Technology is all about and what it can mean to your business.
This course will make sure you understand every important aspect of semantic technologies.
Target Group
- Decision Makers
- Project Managers
- Business Analysts
- Application Architects
- Knowledge Managers
- Team Leaders
For everybody who wants to know more about Semantic Technology
In this training you will learn
- About the only purpose-built solution for managing today’s biggest challenge for companies - the exponential growth of data
- How Semantic Technology can lower the ever- increasing costs of data management
- How to work with distributed data in a flexible way
- How Semantic Technology will leverage existing IT investments
- Why Semantic Technology is becoming important
- To position relevant concepts and standards like RDF, OWL and ontologies
- How Semantic Technology will help you to organize, find and improve the quality of corporate information
- How Semantic Technology will extend the barriers of large scale metadata problems
- Which tool sets exist in the market today
- How Semantic Technology leverages your IT investments
- Semantic Technology solutions through real live demos
- Building blocks for building a generic semantic portal architecture
The 1-day course costs €650 (VAT Exclusive) per person.
This includes all material, online access to documentation, coffee and tidbits.
Or register using the following:
- By Telephone:
- +32 16 31 48 60
- By Mail:
- training@tenforce.com
Course objectives
A 1-day course learning you all you need to know about modeling knowledge as a first step in building your own application with Semantic Technology.
This course is complementary with the programming course scheduled the day after, but can be followed seperately as well
Target Group
- Business Analysts
- Application Architects
- Software Engineers
- Programmers
For everyone wanting to build a Semantic Technology Application
In this training you will learn
- To model information with RDF, XHTML and RDFa
- To incorporate semantics in modeling
- Ontologies and its elements
- To model knowledge with OWL - principles, languages, examples
- Various levels of OWL modeling (OWL full vs. OWL Lite, OWL DL)
- Open World Assumption and Consistency
- Principles of Linked Open Date
- To add rules to a data model
- Reasoning and interface basics
- Types of reasoners and their application
The 1-day course costs €650 (VAT Exclusive) per person.
This includes all material, online access to documentation, coffee and tidbits.
Or register using the following:
- By Telephone:
- +32 16 31 48 60
- By Mail:
- training@tenforce.com
Course objectives
A 1-day course learning you about programming standards and languages when building your own application with Semantic Technology.
This course is complementary with the modeling course scheduled the day before, but can be followed seperately as well
Target Group
- Programmers
- Software Engineers
- Application Engineers
For everyone wanting to build a Semantic Technology Application
In this training you will learn
- Building blocks for Semantic Technology Applications, open source vs. commercial
- Publishing data in RDF
- Programming frameworks for Semantic Applications
- Examples using Jena API, OWLAPI
- Combining RDF with XML, RDB's and other formats
- Aligning OWL with XLST, SWRL and other formats
- Sharing information with microformats, RDFa and SPARQL end-points
- Discovering information with SPARQL
- Persistency triple and quad stores
- Building Semantic Web Services
- Programming with LOD and SPARQL end-points
The 1-day course costs €650 (VAT Exclusive) per person.
This includes all material, online access to documentation, coffee and tidbits.
Or register using the following:
- By Telephone:
- +32 16 31 48 60
- By Mail:
- training@tenforce.com
Course objectives
A 1-day course showing you how to find your way in the Agile world.
After this course you will be able to evaluate and pick the agile processes that bring value to you.
Target Group
- Team Leaders
- Project Managers
- Business Analysts
- Functional Analysts
- IT Managers
- Software Engineers
- Architects
For everyone wanting to implement Scrum
In this training you will get hands on experience with...
- About "The Agile Manifesto" and how it emerged
- About the tensions between the traditional an agile approach & how to reconcile them
- What's in it for you
- How project management can be done the Agile way (Scrum & Kanban)
- What Agile programming techniques exist & how to implement them
- Effects on test environments using the Agile approach
The 1-day course costs €525 (VAT Exclusive) per person.
This includes all material, online access to documentation, coffee and tidbits.
Or register using the following:
- By Telephone:
- +32 16 31 48 60
- By Mail:
- training@tenforce.com
Course objectives
A 1-day course to become familiar with Scrum and its typical terminology.
The fundamental principles of the Scrum approach for projects is illustrated with inside stories and based on experience.
Target Group
- Team Leaders
- Project Managers
- Business Analysts
- Functional Analysts
- IT Managers
- Software Engineers
- Software Architects
For everybody who wants to know more about the Scrum Methodology
In this training you will learn
- Agile vs. Traditional approach
- What is the theory behind Scrum
- What makes it different from waterfall approaches
- Scrum Techniques
- Product & Sprint Backlogs
- Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Reviews and Restrospective meetings
- Why Scrum works
- User Stories
- Burn down charts
- Planning Poker & Estimation in story points
- Scrum pitfalls
- Working in multifunctional teams
- Set up a predictable release planning
- Definition of Done
- How to start with Scrum in your organization
- Identifying good Product Owners and ScrumMasters
- Change Management
- Customer / Business Involvement
- Selecting Scrum Pilots
The 1-day course costs €525 (VAT Exclusive) per person.
This includes all material, online access to documentation, coffee and tidbits.
Or register using the following:
- By Telephone:
- +32 16 31 48 60
- By Mail:
- training@tenforce.com
Course objectives
A 1/2-day course showing you how Scrum can be implemented in your own organization.
The fundamental principles of what Scrum can bring specifically for Managers, while at the same time we show you the pitfalls typically for these projects.
Target Group
- Team Leaders
- Project Managers
- IT Managers
- Software Architects
For everyone wanting to implement Scrum
In this training you will learn
- To integrate Scrum reporting with management reporting
- To handle and delegate responsibilities
- How to deal with multiple projects, multiple teams
- Use & Value of Scrum for Off-Shore Projects
- Use & Value of Scrum for Fixed-Price projects
- How to use Scrum for integration/implementation projects
- How to manage the change process to turn your organization into a Scrum environment
- How to turn a product release burndown into a predictable planning
This 1/2-day course costs €400 (VAT Exclusive) per person.
This includes all material, online access to documentation, coffee and tidbits.
Or register using the following:
- By Telephone:
- +32 16 31 48 60
- By Mail:
- training@tenforce.com
Course objectives
A 2-days workshop making you a Certified ScrumMaster.
The workshop not only delivers the theory behind the Scrum approach by explaining the fundamental principles, you actually get to experience the agile way of project management by practice.
After this workshop you will be able to start up your own Scrum project!
Target Group
- Team Leaders
- Project Managers
- Business Analysts
- Functional Analysts
- IT Managers
- Software Engineers
- Architects
For everyone wanting to implement Scrum
In this training you will get hands on experience with...
- Product Backlog
- Sprint Backlog
- Burndown Charts
- Daily Scrum Meetings
- Sprint Planning Meetings
- Sprint Retrospectives
- Sprint Reviews
- Working with the Product Owner and ScrumMaster
- Working in multifunctional teams
- Planning Poker & Estimations in story points
- User Stories
The 2-days workshop costs €1.050 (VAT Exclusive) per person.
This includes all material, online access to documentation, coffee and tidbits.
Or register using the following:
- By Telephone:
- +32 16 31 48 60
- By Mail:
- training@tenforce.com
Course objectives
A 2-days workshop making you a Certified ScrumMaster.
The workshop not only delivers the theory behind the Scrum approach by explaining the fundamental principles, you actually get to experience the agile way of project management by practice.
After this workshop you will be able to start up your own Scrum project!
Target Group
- Team Leaders
- Project Managers
- Business Analysts
- Functional Analysts
- IT Managers
- Software Engineers
- Architects
For everyone wanting to implement Scrum
In this training you will get hands on experience with...
- Product Backlog
- Sprint Backlog
- Burndown Charts
- Daily Scrum Meetings
- Sprint Planning Meetings
- Sprint Retrospectives
- Sprint Reviews
- Working with the Product Owner and ScrumMaster
- Working in multifunctional teams
- Planning Poker & Estimations in story points
- User Stories
The 2-days workshop costs €1.250 (VAT Exclusive) per person.
This includes all material, online access to documentation, coffee and tidbits.
Or register using the following:
- By Telephone:
- +32 16 31 48 60
- By Mail:
- training@tenforce.com