Often a customer rings up and asks which would be the best course for them, when this happens we can discuss the students and their project' requirements and suggest an appropriate course or courses for them. When we do this we have to keep in mind the kind of pitfalls students and thus the projects they work on can fall into.
A few simple omissions in knowledge can soon lead to the difference between an easily maintainable system and one, which is going to be a textbook project, which is going to have a 1:3 ratio between development and maintenance.
As an example, someone who is working on a SQL Server version 7 implementation may need to move onto SQL Server version 2005. If they were to choose just the upgrading courses then they may miss out on essential elements that were added in intermediate versions of the product which are not covered in detail on the upgrading courses. I put together a simple script, which shows two solutions to a commonly faced batching problem to demonstrate how it is not always the latest elements that are added to a product that make it powerful but sometimes, new elements married to existing elements.
This can often make the difference between whether we offer a MOC, QA or QA Custom designed course for the customer. We can even arrange specialised courses from partner companies like Solid Quality Learning; they are amongst the people that produce the MOC courses in the first place. It is all a matter of benefits and costs.
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I am afraid I could not work out how to retain the formatting in a word document on this blog site. This is not a new thing when dealing with MS products, I remember many years ago when dealing with the likes of Lotus 123 and Excel, or Word and Ami Pro. It was often easier to move towards the Microsoft products than the other way round. I say nothing about the design of strategies to facilitate this, only that I have had to enrol a space on MS spaces. It is free as well ;-)
You will see the code for this entry there (My Space on MSN), mainly because it was easier to make it look good which means easier to read as well, which means easier to use!
Minimum cost maximum benefit what else can anyone ask for?
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