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Japan's First WBT for Learning Object-Oriented Techniques
NTT COMWARE Commences to Offer "Rational WBT" Courses From July
NTT COMWARE CORPORATION (hereinafter NTT COMWARE, Head Office: Minato-ku, Tokyo, President: Yuji Matsuo) is going to offer "Rational WBT" courses for the first time in Japan starting July. WBT(Web Based Training) courses are designed to teach the Object-Oriented Techniques(*1). WBT enable the participants to intuitively understand the details of the complicated phenomena and operations, and to let them learn high-quality system development in a short time by re-utilizing existing programs.
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"Rational WBT" is a training course to learn UML (Unified Modeling Language(*2)). The participants can learn how to develop system, how to utilize development tools, project management, etc. using object-oriented techniques. This course is designed to train object-oriented technicians who can be put to work immediately. The participants can learn the basic theories and they can participate in the practical case studies equipped with self-check functions. For example, the scenarios between 3 parties - "Customer, SE and Manager" are used, and the participants have to configure the complete course registration system for a university. This course is divided into 8 courses such as "Basic Object-Orientation", "Programming Techniques", "Repetitive Development Techniques", "Request Specification Management", "Source Configuration Management", etc. to match the skills of each development process and the person in charge of the development. Its objective is to re-train software engineers to cope with the rapid changes of IT age.
It is an e-learning so that the participants can freely access to the Internet site managed by NTT COMWARE any time anywhere. Initially in July, 8 English courses and 2 Japanese courses translated by NTT COMWARE will be offered. More and more Japanese courses will be added later. We assume the large number of participants of "Rational WBT" will be the companies that are trying to improve their skills of object-oriented techniques to cope with the distributed development of softwares worldwide and the equalization of development skills through streamlining of companies. The price of each course, which consists of several curriculums, starts from 60,000 yen per curriculum.
NTT COMWARE is expecting approximately 10,000 "Rational WBT" participants (including employees of NTT COMWARE and affiliated companies) in the coming 3 years. Furthermore, it supports the improvement of the skills of object-oriented technicians in Japan through cooperation with the collective training provided by Japan Rational Software Corporation (Head Office: Chuo-ku, Tokyo, CEO: Hajime Saito). It also aims to increase the number of object-oriented technicians in Japan by establishing Engineer Authorization System, which is developed by Rational Software Corporation in the U.S.(hereinafter Rational, Head Office: The State of California, Chairman: Paul Levy, CEO: Michael Devlin) at NTT COMWARE.
Rational developed UML which is a modeling language used in object-oriented analysis and design. Rational has the advantage in the objective-oriented technology field, and it cooperates with many companies such as IBM, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard, Intel, etc. Rational provides educational courses which are called Rational University, where the participants can learn not only how to use development tools offered by Rational but also all the knowledge and techniques, e.g. object-oriented techniques, UML, project management, etc. which are required to develop systems in a short time. "Rational WBT" is a WBT course, which is developed by Rational University based on the opinions of the training specialists.
[Background]
The system development by companies is rapidly changing to development through object-oriented techniques. It has shifted from the vendor-initiated mainframe to publicly open system such as Unix, Linux, etc. With this change, distributed development has become common worldwide and there is a strong need for the global de facto standard of development method and development tools. However, the opportunity to learn the new development method that is suited to develop system in a short time using the open systems such as objective-oriented techniques, modeling by UML, repetitive development method, etc. is very limited in Japan. As for UML, thousands of training courses are offered by the universities in the U.S., yet only a few universities in Japan are offering these courses as their regular subjects. It is the same outside of the academic world. The instructors who can teach popular training courses such as UML, practical object-oriented technique training, etc. are very limited so that it is very difficult to participate in these training courses.
["Rational WBT" Course Summary]
- (1)Basic Modeling (Japanese Edition)
- Understanding the modeling is the first step to understand the object-orientation. It is suited for development technicians and those who want to learn object-orientation for the first time. It is the best course to learn the basic object-orientation. This course teaches the basics of modeling e.g. visual modeling method using Unified Modeling Language (UML).
- (2)Basic Modeling of Use-Case Based on UML (Japanese Edition)
- UML is becoming the basic skill required not only for the engineers who design, analyze, and test but also for those who are close to the users who has to examine operating specifications. This course teaches notation, use-case charts, use-case specifications, etc. The participants can learn easily the basics of use-case modeling using UML through case studies and animations.
- (3)(4)Basic Object-Orientation Analysis I & II
- This course teaches mainly UML diagram from development to creation of analysis models such as actual class chart, collaboration chart, etc. The basic concept of the Rational WBT is "To Provide Practical Knowledge to Perform Actual Duties" for the engineers to cope with various problems and how to solve them through learning. The participants of the Rational WBT can learn, prepare and review any time, anywhere at ease.
- (5)Basic Rational Unification Process
- Rational Unification Process (RUP) is a basic course to review from the basics of the procedures the development method that truly matches today's development project using tools. It is based on the new age repetitive development, which is freed from the Waterfall development that had been used as the Bible in the Legacy Period. This course provides a great opportunity to learn global standard for the person in charge of development and the management personnel who is responsible for procedure management and development estimate.
- (6)Basics of Rational Rose
- This course teaches Rational Rose, which is a visual modeling tool based on UML. The participants can learn the basic skills of newest version of Rational Rose and they can come to understand the values of the modeling of a large-scale project development.
- (7)Basic Software Configuration Management Using ClearCase UCM
- Unified Change Management (UCM) is an automated workflow to improve unity of the teamwork through all life cycle of the software development. UCM is the Rational's approach to manage various results and activities such as request, visual modeling, web content, code, etc. based on the "best practice" of Rational. The participants can learn high-level software maintenance and configuration management knowledge using Rational ClearCase UCM.
- (8)Tracing of Problems and Changes Using Rational ClearQuest
- Rational ClearQuest is a scalable and customizable product to trace problem and change requests through the development process of projects. By utilizing the Rational ClearQuest, all team members are united through software change management and the time required to develop systems is shortened. The participants of this training course can learn how to trace problem and change requests through Rational ClearQuest.
[Terminology Description]
- *1: Object-Orientation
- It is one of the programming methods to effectively design programs and realize by combining data and objects, which operate according to each character. It is considered to be the effective way of thinking for a large-scale software development.It is called "Object" Orientation because it views the data and sets as the objects of the real world. For example, when we operate a TV, we do not need to understand what kind of circuit is in operation inside a TV set. We only need to know how to operate a TV, and then we can use a TV, i.e. the object called a "TV" knows the procedure to operate itself (its internal electronic circuit), and we have to give an appropriate command (e.g. by using remote control) in order to use it. This explains the "object" which is a combination of some "data" and the "method" to operate it. It is a way of thinking that makes it easy for us to use things by setting specific operating method to each operable object and covering up the details of the internal operations.
- *2: UML (Unified Modeling Language)
- It is a unified notation of a program plan used in the object-oriented software development. It was developed by 3 people of Software Co.: Mr. Grady Booch, Mr. James Rumbaugh and Mr.Ivar Jacobson. More than 50 standards of unified notation were available for object-oriented design before; however, OMG approved UML as its standard in November 1997. Major companies such as Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Unisys, etc. are expressing their support for the standard.
About the Exhibition Show
We are going to exhibit "Rational WBT" at the "The 11th Software Development Expo & Conference in Tokyo (SODEC)" that is going to be held at Tokyo Big Sight from June 26.
The Details of The11th Software Development Expo & Conference in Tokyo (SODEC)
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Period
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June 26, 2002 (Wed) to June 28 (Fri) 10:00-17:00
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Place
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Tokyo Big Sight East 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Hall
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Hosted by
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Exhibitions Japan Ltd.
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Entry Fee
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5,000 yen (Free Invitation Cards are available.)
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URL
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/http://web.reedexpo.co.jp/SODEC/
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*Exhibition Booth
Japan Rational Software Corporation Booth (Space Position: 3-36)
[Exhibited Product]
Rational WBT
[Rational Partner Special Seminar]
June 26 (Wed) 12:30 - 13:30 A3
[Theme]
What is required for the Future Object - Oriented Developments -
The Paradigm Shift from Labor Intensive Tactics to Labor & Money Intensive Tactics
[Speaker]
NTT COMWARE CORPORATION
Business Innovation Head Quarters Business Planning Department Head
Shinichi Dohyama
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