Learning Opportunities
A year or so ago, a developer lamented to me about the lack of 4D learning opportunities. Over the last few months we have tasked a team led by Chris V and Carin T to develop and manage the roll out of various training sessions. I believe they have made a tremendous start, there is still a long way to go or to paraphrase Churchill, it is not the beginning of the end but rather the end of the beginning. So far they have rolled out seven new online sessions , announced this year’s 4D Summit and today announced a series of seven roadshows across the country. There’s that number seven again, I must check which of them is superstitious 
While developing curriculum is one part of their role, their other role is to ensure that 4D is recognized for delivering quality and value for money learning opportunities. Of course we are the 4D vendor but we want to be seen to be delivering the highest quality of trainings whether they be for trainings where there is a lot of competition in the Javascript or Flex areas or topics where being the vendor gives us a credibility lead such as in depth training on the new ‘4D v11 SQL Indexing schemes.
Another challenge is to get the mixture of classroom and online trainings correct. In some cases this is an easy decision as some trainings lend themselves to a short format ideal for web based learning but for other trainings that take eight or so hours it will be interesting to see if 4D developers like the opportunity for learning on the web or prefer traditional classroom formats. So as in most things this will also be a learning opportunity for us on how to deliver training that developers value.
