Standard training courses provide knowledge and skills. However, for true job effectiveness you also need experience. On-the-job experience alone may not expose your technical personnel to the full range of challenges/issues that deploying a new technology might entail, so OpenMatter provides another way to get that experience to the correct people quickly.

OpenMatter combine both consulting and knowledge transfer to deliver unique learning solutions for customers. Our mentoring packages are designed to help customers solve real-world, complex IT issues. We focuses on delivering and applying knowledge to specific tactical and/or strategic, infrastructure, and/or design/programmatic issues, concerns, etc. Multiple technology areas can often be addressed in a single solution.

Your Benefits

• Accelerate transfer of skills to your business
• Deliver properly architected solutions
• Ensure you have the correct skills
• Ongoing skills mentoring

Investment in people

“Companies that invest in learning outperform the market by more than 45%. Companies that don’t, under perform by 22% - American Society for Training and Development study

Objectives

• Supporting your personnel
• Reviewing your technical strategy
• Reducing your project risk
• Providing a formal analysis of technical needs and strategy
• Determine constraints, deadlines and risk

Aims

• To turn the knowledge gained on a technical training course into real-life usable skills.
• Ensure that your technical team can gain maximum experience in as short a time as possible
• Help manage risk and ensure delivery to deadlines

Outline

OpenMatter’s Mentoring packages are a skills deployment service whose aim is to turn the knowledge gained on a technical training course into real-life usable skills.

We dive deeper into the people issues around new technology deployment, ensuring that the technical team responsible can gain maximum experience in a short time.

What we offer

• Focused technical knowledge transfer that combines several approaches to learning
• Technical workshops
• Handover training
• Procedures & methods
• Flexible format (lectures, Q&A, hands-on workshops) depending upon customer requirements

Levels of Service

Bronze – Two days mentoring

Silver – Two days mentoring plus two additional mentoring days

Gold – Two days mentoring plus four additional mentoring days

Platinum – Two days mentoring plus eight additional mentoring days

The additional mentoring days are normally split over a period of time

Typical topics include

• Java/Open Source development
• Application performance
• Performance and tuning
• Java Enterprise System
• Ruby on Rails
• Real Time Java
• Spring/Hibernate
• Solaris 10 Migration
• Solaris Zones
• Solaris ZFS
• Identity Management

OpenMatter’s mentoring packages are designed to deliver hands on skills transfer enabling you to remain in control of your environment and seek expert help as you require it.