The most effective way to improve the skills of a software development team is to immerse them in an environment where software best practices are applied daily. Project Catalyst provides development teams with a full time coach, who is joined frequently by a team of hands-on mentors to teach them a new technology or practice. The mentoring/learning encounters are intense but brief (1-2 week) sessions that take place at points in the project schedule just as they encounter a need for a new skill. The coach stays with the project team throughout the project to ensure that newly acquired skills are applied properly and effectively.
Experiential learning
Your team learns and practices new techniques and technologies by living the life of an agile, object-technology development team – observing, interacting with, and being guided by experts daily.
Don’t take time away for class
Rather than interrupting the project with class work, Valtech’s project Catalyst brings the learning experience to the project room. Learn new technologies and techniques within the context of your project from expert designer-developers, who help you with the project while teaching you new techniques.
Maintain your momentum, even while learning
A group of Valtech expert designer-developers apply their talent and capability to your project while your staff learns, keeping your project moving forward.
1. Real world: The software development team works on a real project
2. Coaching: An experienced Valtech project coach guides the software development team
3. Collaborative: client-side developers work side by side with Valtech experts
4. Just-in-Time: New concepts and techniques are introduced to the team just-in-time for them to be applied