Ted Pattison (MVP), Andrew Connell (MVP), Nicola Young, John Ross, Shane Young (MVP), Todd Klindt (MVP), Scot Hillier (MVP), John Holliday (MVP), David Mann (MVP), Randy Drisgill, Chris Predeek, Peter DeBetta (MVP), Wouter van Vugt (MVP)
When a company rolls out SharePoint 2007, the people using and supporting the system must learn to wear many hats. CriticalPath training curriculum is designed to give people playing these key roles the skills they need to accelerate the learning curve.
Training Categories:
Information Worker Training For business users, analysts, content managers and site collection owners
SharePoint Designer Training For Web designers required to fully customize SharePoint sites
SharePoint Administrator Training For system administrators, support technicians and IT professionals
SharePoint Developer Training For .NET developers building components and solutions for SharePoint 2007
Ted Pattison Group Overview:
Training is provided by top SharePoint MVPs and leading voices in the SharePoint community.
Instructors are top-notch presenters that speak at Microsoft-sponsored conferences such as The SharePoint Conference (SPC), Tech Ed, Office Developer Conference and the Professional Developers Conference (PDC). Our instructor staff has authored a significant percentage of blogs, books, articles and whitepapers that represent the authoritative references on SharePoint technologies.
Choosen by Microsoft Consulting Services to train over 250 of their consultants on SharePoint development and best practices.
Teach public classes out of professional training centers
Each student is supplied with a powerful, pre-configured computer to complete lab exercies - no need a laptop or configure a computer before class.
Course authors are SharePoint MVPs and leading voices in establishing industry-wide guidelines and best practices.
When compared to Microsoft Office Cirriculum (MOC) courses, Ted Pattison Group courses are more complete, objective and insightful; They are a third party that covers the good, the bad and the ugly.
User reviews
Average user rating from: 5 user(s)
Overall Rating:
5.0
Instructor's Knowledge:
5.0
Course Structure and Syllabus:
5.0
Take-Away Materials:
4.8
Overall Satisfaction:
5.0
Great SP Adventure training was more valuable
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful
Great training delivers exaclty what is needed by real world developers.
Training Reviews
Courses Taken
Great SharePoint Adventure 2010
Several online courses
Critical Path is the best. We tried 3 other companies. We ended up teaching them about SharePoint. Our guys are top-notch SharePoint admins already, so we needed the best of the best. These guys are it. Microsoft actually recommended them to us. 5 stars across the board.
Training Reviews
Courses Taken
Our guys at Fpweb took the Pro Admin course and are signed up for the Survivor Camp this Dec.
Part of my job role as an Evangelist at Microsoft is to help customers envision the possibilities when using our technologies. MOSS has a huge surface area, and I was admittedly weak on the publishing aspects of MOSS and how to leverage its WCM capabilities. Andrew Connell (AC) did a fantastic job of ensuring the entire class had a common baseline for understanding MOSS and the feature sets that the class would focus on. There was enough background material to help the class quickly familiarize with concepts that the rest of the class built upon, such as building custom features and application pages.
The class moved quickly from common SharePoint developer concepts to specific publishing concepts, such as extending an application and creating a new publishing site. AC wasted no time in moving to the parts of the course that I found most valuable: page layouts, field types, and extending the authoring experience. Unlike other courses I have attended that don't seem to get to the good stuff until the course is almost over, AC focused on concepts particular to publishing scenarios the entire time... yet the material is applicable outside of publishing as well.
Even when topics apply broadly across many scenarios, AC stayed on topic and continually reinforced the applicability in WCM scenarios. His demos were entertaining and engaging, often with humor sprinkled in. When attendees (most of which had previous real world SharePoint experience) would launch difficult edge-case questions at AC, I was impressed that he almost always had an answer backed by experience on a project. When he didn't, he was able to come up with the answer in a matter of minutes.
This was a very enjoyable class for me, and I highly recommend it to anyone with a solid background in ASP.NET development and a moderate familiarity with SharePoint. AC takes concepts and explains them down to a detailed level, making it easy for ASP.NET developers to understand the translation of terms into the SharePoint environment.
The Great SharePoint Adventure. Good as advertised
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
This is the second class that I have taken with the Ted Pattison Group. Both times I came away extremely happy with both the course content and the instructor as well. I took an earlier WSS class with David Mann. It was his first time teaching any class. David taught the class like an old pro. It was great.
When I felt that it was time to really drive things home and fill in the blanks, I took the Great Adventure class with Ted Pattison as the instructor. It was everything that I exepcted it to be (which was a lot) and more. I highly recommend the Ted Pattision Group if you need to learn SharePoint.
Should I need furter training I will not hesitate to sign up for anothe course from the Ted Pattison Group.
Im am not someone that could ever consider a developer by any means but Andrew and the fine folks at TPG extended to me an invitation to sit in on his class earlier this year.
What i took away from attending this class was a deeper respect for those that develop. The class was amazing and not at all stuffy as you can sometimes find in a training course. This is all due to Andrews unique personality and his breadth of knowledge when it comes to not only development but everything related to Publishing with WCM. Andrew actually made development seem interesting to me and at the end of the course I was actually able to open up Visual Studio and add up some code. For those that know me this is no small feat.
If you are a developer and you are looking to start developing with WCM I highly recommend this course.
Thank you AC!!
Training Reviews
Courses Taken
WCM401: Developing Publishing Sites with SharePoint Server 2007 WCM
