Data Modeling Master Class

Steve Hoberman's Best Practices Approach to Understanding and Applying Fundamentals Through Advanced Modeling Techniques

Bring this class onsite to your organization, or attend our next public offering  July 2010!

The Master Class is a complete course on requirements gathering and data modeling, containing four days of practical techniques for producing solid relational and dimensional data models. After learning the styles and steps in gathering and modeling requirements, you will apply a best practices approach to building and validating data models through the Data Model Scorecard®. You will know not just how to build a data model, but also how to build a data model well. Challenging exercises and workshops will reinforce the material and enable you to apply these techniques in your current projects. More

What the data management professional needs to know about the latest trends and technologies

A Hands-On Approach to preparing for the latest challenges and opportunities within IT

If your job functions include data architecture, analysis, or modeling, you need to understand the latest trends and technologies and their impact on our world. This one day seminar explores each of these trends and technologies along with the challenges and opportunities it presents for the data management professional. Topics include cloud computing, mashups, unstructured data, columnar databases, XML, and agile. In each section there are a number of challenges that we will tackle as a group which will prepare you for handling these challenges on the job. More

Data Modeling Process Improvement Session

Strengthen Your Data Management Practices!

Add one or more days to a Data Modeling Master Class to work directly with Steve on incorporating techniques from the training material into your software methodology. Deploy best practices such as abstraction, invaluable templates such as the Grain Matrix, and proven techniques such as the Data Model Scorecard® to improve your application deliverables. Read all about the Data Modeling Master Class above, and if you are interested in expanding the Master Class into a Process Improvement Session, please complete the form on this page, selecting "Process Improvement Session" from the drop down list.

Data Modeling Challenges Two Day Workshop

A Hands-On Approach to Sharpening Your Modeling Skills!

This workshop includes a carefully selected collection of easy, moderate, and difficult scenarios. After mastering easy challenges, you'll advance to more moderate and difficult challenges. This is not just a lecture. You'll get hands-on experience. More

Presentations for User Groups

Interactive sessions for any sized group!

Each of the courses described on my website can be offered to your user group, along with several additional ones. Each of these presentations can be from 1 to 3 hours in length, and are offered to non-profit user groups such as DAMA and CA User Groups at sharply reduced rates. More