Sparx Enterprise Architect (EA) Training Course

This instructor-led, live training in Portugal (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to intermediate-level participants who wish to solve everyday workplace challenges through gamification techniques.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the principles of Design Thinking and its application to problem-solving.
• Incorporate gamification techniques to foster engagement and innovation.
• Develop creative and practical solutions to common workplace issues.
• Collaborate effectively across teams to implement problem-solving strategies.
• Apply iterative approaches to refine solutions through feedback and experimentation.

This instructor-led, live training in Portugal (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level developers, architects, and analysts who wish to learn and apply DDD concepts and practices to their software projects.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Grasp core DDD concepts (bounded contexts, entities, etc.) and their application in software projects.
• Apply strategic DDD to define and design the domain model, identify subdomains, and establish boundaries.
• Implement tactical DDD using patterns such as CQRS, factories, and event sourcing.
• Refactor and modernize legacy systems effectively with DDD techniques.
• Design and implement product, domain, and team-oriented architectures.
• Utilize data mesh to create a domain-oriented data platform supporting data discovery and governance.

Domain Driven Design (DDD) is an approach for handling complex behaviors when developing software.

Domain-Driven Design (DDD) is an approach to software development that emphasizes designing systems around the business domain, using a shared ubiquitous language and tactical & strategic modeling techniques.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at advanced-level senior developers who wish to apply DDD principles to design robust, maintainable, and scalable systems.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Identify and model core domain concepts using ubiquitous language and bounded contexts.
• Apply tactical DDD patterns such as entities, value objects, aggregates, repositories, and domain services.
• Design context maps and strategic boundaries to manage complexity across microservices and teams.
• Integrate DDD practices into Agile teams and CI/CD workflows to improve collaboration and delivery.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

There are plenty of tried and tested patterns widely available to everyone. Sometimes it is a matter of changing the names and implementing the pattern in a specific technology. It can save hundreds of hours, which otherwise would be spent on design and testing. Training Goals This course has two goals: first, it allows you to reuse widely-known patterns, second, it allows you to create and reuse patterns specific to your organization. It helps you to estimate how patterns can reduce costs, systematize the design process and generate a code framework based on your patterns. Audience Software designers, business analysts, project managers, programmers and developers as well as operational managers and software division managers. Course Style The course focuses on use cases and their relationship with a specific pattern. Most of the examples are explained in UML and in simple Java examples (the language can change if the course is booked as a closed course). It guides you through the sources of the patterns as well as showing you how to catalogue and describe patterns which can be reused across your organization.

Design Thinking is a human-centered methodology for solving problems through empathy, definition, ideation, prototyping, and testing. This version of the course places a strong emphasis on the Empathize stage, focusing on connecting previously identified pain points to the real needs of internal clients, and applying dynamic, collaborative activities to transform insights into actionable outcomes.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to intermediate-level teams and leaders who wish to deepen their empathy skills, strengthen relationships with internal clients, and translate pain points into meaningful opportunities for improvement.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Apply empathy-based techniques to uncover and validate client needs.
• Translate mapped pain points into clear, actionable needs.
• Engage in dynamic role plays and simulations to practice client-centered conversations.
• Collaboratively redefine problem statements from the client’s perspective.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and guided discussions.
• Dynamic, hands-on role plays and empathy exercises.
• Group workshops for collaborative problem reframing.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized version tailored to a specific internal process (e.g., procurement or equipment provisioning), please contact us to arrange.

Design Thinking is a human-centered methodology for solving problems through empathy, definition, ideation, prototyping and testing. Focusing on the first two stages — Empathize and Define — helps teams better understand internal clients and define the right problems to solve.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to intermediate-level teams and leaders who wish to strengthen their connection with internal clients, reduce resistance to change, and improve operational efficiency through practical, collaborative methods.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Use active listening and interviewing techniques to gather meaningful insights about internal clients.
• Create empathy maps and capture user needs and pain points.
• Differentiate real root problems from perceived issues using tools like the 5 Whys and problem trees.
• Draft clear, actionable problem statements (POVs) that guide solution work.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Practical, hands-on exercises and role-plays.
• Group workshops and plenary feedback sessions.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized version tailored to a specific internal process (e.g., procurement or equipment provisioning), please contact us to arrange.

In this instructor-led, live workshop training in Portugal (online or onsite), participants will learn how to apply the five stages of Design Thinking to better understand the problems experienced by end-users of a product or service, then develop the best approach for resolving them.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Use creative strategies to match customers' needs with technologically feasible solutions.
• Formulate a strategy to increase customer value and enhance product and service offerings.

This instructor-led, live training in Portugal (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to intermediate-level professionals who wish to understand and apply Design Thinking methodologies to drive innovation and improve business solutions.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the core principles of Design Thinking and its role in innovation.
• Apply the five phases of Design Thinking to problem-solving.
• Utilize ideation techniques and tools to foster creativity.
• Implement Design Thinking strategies to improve processes and enhance efficiency.

This instructor-led, live training in Portugal (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level leaders and HR professionals who wish to learn and apply Design Thinking methodologies to foster innovation, enhance problem-solving capabilities, and engage teams effectively.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Equip participants with tools and methodologies to foster innovation and team engagement.
• Develop skills in empathy mapping, ideation, and prototyping for solving complex challenges.
• Apply Design Thinking principles to leadership and HR scenarios.
• Promote a culture of innovation within tech teams.

Overview:

There are Five stages in the Design Thinking (DT) process (empathize, define the problem, ideate, prototype, test).

In an increasingly complex world, we deal with problems that may need special approaches. Design Thinking helps deal with complex problems. Mastering design-thinking helps to deal with complex problems effectively, communicate better, persuade efficiently, improve business results and enhances organizational and personal behavior and performance.

• How DT works: learn from people and problem, find patterns, design model (model drift), test the model, evaluate the model and re-engineer.
• Relationship between DT, innovation and entrepreneurship.
• DT methods and tools: persona, stakeholder map, customer journey map, service blueprint, business model innovation.
• Application of DT: design mindset, disruptive innovation, iterative approach, agile estimation technique, critical thinking, problem solving, teamwork, leadership readiness, communication skills, technology savvy, forward thinking, intercultural and ethical competency, emotional intelligence, self-awareness, negotiating skills, conflict resolution.

Objectives:

• To understand the fundamentals and nuances of DT
• To explore key concepts, factors, theories, types, and models in DT
• To experiment, experience and practice DT

Delivery:

This is a 1 day (4 hours) training course and consists of:

• lectures (40% - presentation of theories, concepts, models, and interactions),
• group exercises (30% - group dynamics, games, group discussion, and mock-conflict resolution exercises),
• individual activities (15% - writing, designing and peer discussion)
• and others (15% - videos, reading).

Note: due to the nature of this course there is a minimum group size of 3

Target group:

Technical Team Leader, Software Developer

Learning objective:

The purpose of training is to acquire the ability to design advanced development / project structures in C #.

During the course, students become familiar with the MSDN resources and tools to support the development process, such as Microsoft Visual Studio, ReSharper.

This instructor-led, live training in Portugal (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level Java developers who wish to apply design patterns to improve software structure, maintainability, and scalability.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the purpose and benefits of design patterns.
• Apply Creational, Structural, and Behavioral patterns effectively in Java.
• Improve code reusability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Refactor existing codebases using design patterns.

This instructor-led, live training in Portugal (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level PHP developers who wish to apply design patterns effectively in their projects.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the purpose and benefits of design patterns.
• Identify and implement appropriate design patterns for common scenarios.
• Structure PHP applications using industry-recognized best practices.
• Integrate patterns into modern frameworks such as Symfony or Zend.

The training is designed for JavaScript developers, designing and implementing advanced Internet applications. Topics discussed during the training aimed at bringing best practices in JavaScript programming and highlight the most common mistakes. An important point of the training is to discuss the available object-oriented programming with JavaScript syntax.