Training Team

Definition

Training Team

the team that provides training on one or more endeavors

Classification

As illustrated in the preceding figure, Training Team is part of the following inheritance hierarchy:

• Type: Concrete
• Superclass: Team
• Subclasses:
  • None

Responsibilities

The typical team-specific responsibilities of a Training Team are to:

• Determine endeavor training needs by:
  • Role.
  • Person.
  • Schedule.
• Plan the training tasks.
• Evaluate and select any outside training vendors.
• Develop, obtain, and maintain the associated training materials.
• Provide training and mentoring to members of the:
  • Project Team.
  • Operations Team.
  • Customer Organization.
  • Partner Organization.
  • Subcontractor Organization.
  • User Organization.

A training team typically inherits the general team responsibilities from the team process component.

Roles

A training team typically consists of persons playing the following roles:

• Trainer, who performs planning and who delivers formal training (e.g., endeavor process, application domain, and application operation and usage.
• Vendor Representative, who provides training in vendor products (e.g., language training, component infrastructure certification training, tool use training).
• Technical Writer, who helps develop and maintain the training materials.

Tasks

A training team typically performs the following team-specific tasks in an iterative, incremental, parallel, and time-boxed manner:

• Training:
  • Training Needs Assessment
  • Training Planning
  • Training Vendor Selection
  • Training Materials Production
  • Training Scheduling
  • Training Delivery

A training team typically inherits the common team tasks from the team process component.

Work Products

A training team typically produces the following work products:

• Training Needs Assessment
• Training Vendor Assessment
• Training Plan
• Training Materials, including visual presentations and aids, computer-based training materials, documentation, student tests and answer sheets, and class attendance lists and certificates.
• Training Schedule
• Training Status Report

Guidelines

• Training may be in the form of:
  • Classroom training.
  • Mentoring.
  • Computer-based training.
• Training may be provided in many subjects including the:
  • Endeavor process (e.g., work products, work units, producers, stages, etc.).
  • Commercial products and tools.
  • Use and operation of the application.
  • Technology (e.g., Java, CORBA, object databases, etc.).
  • Business domain.
• A training team typically inherits the common team guidelines from the team process component.