When you buy new software, you expect to send your developers to product training. But development managers continue to report dissatisfaction with the results they see: The new software doesn't deliver the improved productivity promised by the vendor, the development team continues to struggle with incorporating new tools into their work process, the project is falling behind schedule, and time-to-market goals look further out of reach.
Traditional Customer Education Is Not Enough
The traditional training approach is based on the false assumption that all developers have the same baseline knowledge. In reality, every device software developer brings different information, capabilities, and work requirements to each project. To optimize the return on investment that motivated your decision to purchase new device software technology, you must address the unique work and education requirements of each user—you need individually tailored learning plans.
Personalized Learning Programs Drive Increased Productivity
The Wind River Personalized Learning Program (PLP) is a systematic approach to delivering the best possible education to all developers. We assess the unique needs of each team member, identify work-related skill gaps, and generate development plans, materials, and learning events to address those gaps. Then we deliver individually targeted education services over a short period of time that help each team member gain the specific knowledge that he or she requires. Finally, we quantify the impact of the development activities for each user. (See charts at right for an example of assessment data following a Wind River PLP at a large aerospace and defense contractor.)
This programmatic, focused, and project-friendly approach to user development results in a significant increase in the personal productivity of your customer's users, improved efficiency in the processes they employ, and greater adoption of the technology they purchased, all in a very brief period of time—without the need for users to travel.
Benefits of the Wind River Personalized Learning Program include:
- Clients average a proficiency improvement of 20%, with some users gaining 60% or more
- Productivity improvement of 20% equals one workday per week per user, gained in a matter of a few weeks
- The discovery of owned but underutilized technologies—and education on these neglected investments—leads to improved user productivity and improves management's ROI from Wind River education and products
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