If you want to inquire about a private class for your organization, please contact me, Michael Bolton. Prices vary depending on where and when you want the class, and on any other services you’d like.
Rapid Software Testing classes are designed not only for testers, but for anyone who tests or evaluates software. That includes testers, programmers, development and network support people, documentation folk, technical support representatives, even salespeople and marketers—and anyone who manages testing work.
We have classes designed specifically for managers and coaches. We have taught classes to groups of developers and to even to marketing departments!
Benefits
There are significant benefits to booking a private class.
- Exercises and curriculum can be tailored to your organization’s context and needs. I can design or adapt exercises to target your organization’s own products or services.
- You get to decide the start time each day, and you get to negotiate the days on which the class will happen.
- Your organization may opt to have work reviewed for the group or for individual students.
- When the class is taught to a private group, participants can bring up topics without fear of divulging confidential information to outsiders. (I am of course willing to sign a non-disclosure agreement.)
- The price structure may be easier for your organization to recruit non-testers into private classes.
Private Class with Consulting
The majority of the RST classes are taught privately for companies and are tied to our consulting work. When I do a private class for your organization, I can fine-tune the curriculum and agenda just for you. Many companies hire me to consult with them for a few sessions before or afterwards about their unique issues. Others like to work with me for several days to observe development and testing and to focus the agenda for the class. More About Consulting
On-site and Online
I offer private classes both on-site and online. My general preference is to visit clients and work on-site, but if that doesn’t work for you or your organization, I’m happy to teach remotely.
Whether live or online, the maximum number of students per class is usually 25, although there may be room flexibility about that in some cases.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, James Bach and I took our classes online, enabled by Zoom video-conferencing and screen-sharing technology. James still prefers this mode of working, and no longer travels. He offers public online classes; I handle the public in-person classes.
When you ask me for an online private class,
- I typically present private online classes as 90-minute webinars, three sessions per day, with half-hour breaks in between. This is negotiable.
- I typically deliver private classes on consecutive days. This is also negotiable. Since travel is not an issue, online classes can be distributed over non-consecutive days (for instance, two days one week, two days the next).
- Unlike public online classes, you can negotiate the times at which webinars and breaks occur, making it possible to tailor the schedule for your people and your time zones.
- The class is normally delivered via passworded secure Zoom sessions. I am willing to consider other platforms; I have delivered classes and webinars via GoToMeeting, for instance. For me, though, Zoom affords features that bring me a little closer to face-to-face interaction with the participants.
In certain regions I work through agents, especially for public classes. If you’re in such a region, I will connect you with my agent.