I just attended the Sitecore CMS 6.4 Developer training and was thoroughly impressed with the experience.
My instructor was superb and the materials were fantastic. And, I passed the exam easily with a score of 85%. It was open book after all :-)
Sure, there were tons to cover in just three days, but if anything, I found the materials to be purposely repetitive. In fact, I wanted more demonstration, slides, and student exercises! I’m the type of person, however, that would rather have too much than not enough.
In order to justify my time away from a project, I needed the training to not only cover the key concepts and terms, but also show me hints of the possible. And that’s exactly what I felt I got from my Sitecore training!
Of course, I know a couple of colleague who did not get what they needed. Alas, they were distracted and couldn’t give 100%. They had to answer work emails and put out some client fires.
My recommendation is that if you do decide to attend a developer training for Sitecore, make sure you are not working on something while you are being trained. This is your one shot to learn as much as you can. Take advantage of it while you have the opportunity.
I came prepared to learn and engage to my training. When I returned and spoke with my boss, I was able to say that the learning experience was invaluable. Proof is in the results: I’ve already completed over a dozen presentation components for our Sitecore site in less than a week. That’s coming from a ASP.NET developer with a VB background guys!
As for better products with better training? I must disagree. The training was excellent and Sitecore is an outstanding solution for our clients.
My instructor was superb and the materials were fantastic. And, I passed the exam easily with a score of 85%. It was open book after all :-)
Sure, there were tons to cover in just three days, but if anything, I found the materials to be purposely repetitive. In fact, I wanted more demonstration, slides, and student exercises! I’m the type of person, however, that would rather have too much than not enough.
In order to justify my time away from a project, I needed the training to not only cover the key concepts and terms, but also show me hints of the possible. And that’s exactly what I felt I got from my Sitecore training!
Of course, I know a couple of colleague who did not get what they needed. Alas, they were distracted and couldn’t give 100%. They had to answer work emails and put out some client fires.
My recommendation is that if you do decide to attend a developer training for Sitecore, make sure you are not working on something while you are being trained. This is your one shot to learn as much as you can. Take advantage of it while you have the opportunity.
I came prepared to learn and engage to my training. When I returned and spoke with my boss, I was able to say that the learning experience was invaluable. Proof is in the results: I’ve already completed over a dozen presentation components for our Sitecore site in less than a week. That’s coming from a ASP.NET developer with a VB background guys!
As for better products with better training? I must disagree. The training was excellent and Sitecore is an outstanding solution for our clients.