IconATG Releases IT Professional Training to the Open Source Community

St. Louis, MO, April 23, 2009 --(PR.com)-- IconATG is making their most popular IT professional training courses available to the open source community under the IconATG Open Source Training Project. This offering uniquely fills a need for self-study and skills development within the community. The course material is licensed under a Creative Commons license, which will enable people to quickly gain cutting-edge expertise and to contribute new techniques and improvements back to the community as a whole.

Their goals are to give back to and collaborate more closely with the development community to make it easier for individuals to improve their skills, and to create a community around best practices and cutting-edge techniques. Doing so will make it easier and faster for developers and others to increase the quality of software while also decreasing the effort and cost of development.

High-quality systems and software have become an essential part of all of our lives. Producing the highest quality and most reliable software is made easier when the business and software development share a common foundation of best practices. IconATG courses are designed to create a common baseline for software development knowledge, experience, skills, and techniques. Providing their industry-leading courses in an open source model allows anyone and everyone to accelerate and improve their ability to build better systems. It also allows for individuals to influence the direction of industry best practices through a community process of continuous improvement.

Their courses provide full project life cycle coverage and all project roles are invited to participate. Project Managers, Business Analysts, Quality Analysts, Architects, Designers, and Developers, and Testers are all represented in their initial course offerings in the IconATG Open Source Training Project. Whether you are looking for a first time introduction to a topic or carry the battle scars from hundreds of projects, they believe that this community can provide a starting point for your involvement and contribution.

“We often find that groups within a single organization are 'Separated By A Common Language,' leading to confusion, misunderstood requirements, and eventually lower quality software,” says Roy Garris, IconATG Regulatory Compliance Practice Manager. “Providing a direct-point-of-entry for individuals and teams to quickly and easily standardize on best practices, terminology, and techniques will clear the way for greatly improved processes, improved projects, and ultimately raise the bar on overall software quality, which is vital as our society comes to rely more and more heavily on automation.”

With the availability of the IconATG Open Source Training Project to the open source community, project teams and end-users alike will start to see increased quality, more standardized approaches, improved re-use, lower costs, and greater benefits for their projects.

About IconATG
IconATG is a thought-leader in information technology training, mentoring and consulting. Our training staff has successfully developed cost-effective customized IT training programs and we have taught thousands of students through our formal courseware and hands-on workshops. We offer introductory to advanced courses in focused disciplines of the full software lifecycle including the Unified Process (RUP), UML, requirements and use cases, usability, iterative project management, and programming. Our instructors' real-world expertise is incorporated in each of our classes, giving your team the practical skills to be more productive when developing today's most demanding applications.

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