Software Design Training in Melbourne

Design Thinking is a human-centred methodology for solving problems through empathy, definition, ideation, prototyping, and testing. This version of the course places a strong emphasis on the Empathise 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-centred 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-centred approach to problem-solving that leverages empathy, definition, ideation, prototyping, and testing. By concentrating on the initial two stages—Empathize and Define—teams can gain a deeper understanding of internal clients and accurately pinpoint the problems that require resolution.

This instructor-led live training, available either online or onsite, is designed for teams and leaders at a beginner to intermediate level who aim to strengthen their relationships with internal clients, minimise resistance to change, and enhance operational efficiency through practical and collaborative methods.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

• Utilise active listening and interviewing techniques to gather meaningful insights regarding internal clients.
• Develop empathy maps to capture user needs and pain points.
• Distinguish genuine root causes from perceived issues using tools such as the 5 Whys and problem trees.
• Formulate clear, actionable problem statements (POVs) that guide the solution development process.

Course Format

• Interactive lectures and discussions.
• 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.

This instructor-led, live training in Melbourne (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 Melbourne (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.

Domain-Driven Design (DDD) is a software development approach that focuses on designing systems around the business domain, utilising a shared ubiquitous language alongside tactical and strategic modelling techniques.

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

Upon completion 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.
• Plenty of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customisation Options

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

This instructor-led, live training in Melbourne (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.

This instructor-led, live training in Melbourne (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.

This instructor-led, live training in Melbourne (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 Melbourne (online or onsite) is designed for beginner to intermediate software and systems designers seeking a structured and comprehensive grasp of Sparx Enterprise Architect.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

• Navigate and effectively utilise Sparx Enterprise Architect, gaining familiarity with its interface and tools.
• Model diverse business structures, including organisational charts, processes, and systems, using various diagram types.
• Implement change tracking, version control, and team collaboration strategies within Sparx EA.
• Utilise advanced Sparx EA features such as modelling with stereotypes, customisation, and task automation.

The recent evolution of microservices and containers has profoundly transformed how we design, develop, deploy, and operate software. Modern applications must be optimised for scalability, elasticity, resilience, and adaptability. Driven by these demands, contemporary architectures require a distinct set of patterns and practices. In this training, we explore methods to identify, understand, and adapt to these new requirements.

Audience
This training is designed for individuals who have some familiarity with container technology and Kubernetes concepts but may lack real-world experience. It is grounded in use cases and lessons learned from practical projects, aiming to inspire participants to create and manage even better cloud-native applications.

• Developers
• Operations staff
• DevOps professionals
• QA Engineers
• IT Project Managers

Course Format

• Interactive lectures and discussions
• Numerous exercises and practical sessions
• Hands-on implementation in a live lab environment

Course Customisation Options

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

In this instructor-led, live training session, participants will explore the foundational and advanced principles of software architecture and design. The course progresses through a series of practical, hands-on lab exercises and in-depth discussions.

Audience

• Software professionals
• Software designers
• Developers

Course Format

• A blend of lectures, discussions, exercises, and extensive hands-on practice

Note

• For a tailored training programme, please contact us to make arrangements.

The core aim of the training and workshops is to equip participants with the knowledge, tools, and techniques necessary to enhance the effectiveness of activities focused on identifying business value. This process is driven by client requirements and emphasises achieving consensus across functions, technology, and quality teams during the requirements creation phase, utilising brainstorming techniques.

Course Format

• Interactive lectures and discussions.
• Extensive exercises and practical application.
• Hands-on implementation within a live-lab environment.

Course Customisation Options

• To request customised training for this course, please contact us to make arrangements.

Domain-Driven Design (DDD) is a robust software development methodology that emphasises modelling intricate software behaviours by aligning technical execution with fundamental business concepts. This course examines how DDD enables teams to manage complexity and mitigate risk via strategic and tactical patterns. Participants will learn to develop a 'Ubiquitous Language', establish clear boundaries through Bounded Contexts, and apply specific architectural building blocks such as Entities, Value Objects, and Aggregates. The objective is to construct flexible, maintainable software architectures that remain aligned with the evolving business domain.

A wide array of proven patterns is readily accessible. Often, this simply involves adapting the terminology and applying the pattern within a particular technology stack. This approach can save hundreds of hours that would otherwise be devoted to design and testing. Training Objectives This course has two primary goals: first, to enable you to reuse widely established patterns, and second, to assist you in creating and reusing patterns tailored to your organisation. It helps you to estimate how patterns can reduce costs, systematise 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 organisation.

In this instructor-led, live workshop training in Melbourne (online or onsite), participants will learn how to apply the five stages of Design Thinking to gain a deeper understanding of the problems faced by end-users of a product or service, and subsequently develop the most effective strategies for resolving them.

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

• Utilise creative strategies to align customer needs with technologically feasible solutions.
• Formulate strategies to increase customer value and enhance product and service offerings.

Overview:

The Design Thinking (DT) process comprises five distinct stages: empathise, define the problem, ideate, prototype, and test.

In an increasingly complex world, we encounter problems that often demand specialised approaches. Design Thinking provides the framework to navigate these complexities effectively. Mastering design thinking enables you to tackle complex challenges proficiently, communicate more clearly, persuade with greater efficiency, improve business outcomes, and enhance both organisational and personal behaviour and performance.

• How DT functions: learn from people and the problem, identify patterns, design a model (understanding model drift), test the model, evaluate it, and re-engineer as necessary.
• The relationship between DT, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
• DT methods and tools: persona development, stakeholder mapping, customer journey mapping, service blueprints, and business model innovation.
• Application of DT: cultivating a design mindset, disruptive innovation, iterative approaches, agile estimation techniques, critical thinking, problem-solving, teamwork, leadership readiness, communication skills, technological savviness, forward-thinking, intercultural and ethical competency, emotional intelligence, self-awareness, negotiation skills, and conflict resolution.

Objectives:

• To grasp the fundamentals and nuances of DT.
• To explore key concepts, factors, theories, types, and models within DT.
• To experiment with, experience, and practice DT.

Delivery:

This is a 1-day (4 hours) training course comprising:

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

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

This instructor-led live training in Melbourne (online or onsite) is targeted 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.

This instructor-led, live training (available online or onsite) is designed for C developers looking to master embedded C design principles.

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

• Grasp the design considerations that ensure embedded C programs are reliable
• Define the functionality of an embedded system
• Establish program logic and structure to achieve desired outcomes
• Design reliable, error-free embedded applications
• Achieve optimal performance from target hardware

Course Format:

• Interactive lectures and discussions
• Exercises and practical practice
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment

Customization Options:

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

This course is tailored for JavaScript developers who design and implement sophisticated Internet applications. The curriculum focuses on establishing best practices in JavaScript development while highlighting frequent pitfalls. A key emphasis is placed on exploring object-oriented programming techniques within the JavaScript syntax.

Kubernetes is an open-source platform designed to automate every stage of developing containerised applications. Design patterns offer iterative solutions to software development challenges related to software architecture. Kubernetes extensions are employed to configure and support Kubernetes clusters. By leveraging Kubernetes design patterns and extensions, platform users can implement CI/CD approaches while maintaining the scalability and flexibility of software applications.

This instructor-led live training (available online or onsite) is targeted at developers and DevOps engineers who wish to utilise Kubernetes design patterns and extensions to build enterprise applications on Kubernetes clusters.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up a Kubernetes cluster and configure the necessary DevOps tools.
• Understand the fundamentals of software design patterns and Kubernetes extensions.
• Utilise Kubernetes extensions and design patterns when interacting with the Kubernetes API.
• Develop customised Kubernetes resources and apply dynamic controllers to a cluster.
• Manage and secure any Kubernetes environment using Kubernetes plugins.
• Integrate DevOps networking models into existing and prospective Kubernetes projects.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lectures and discussions.
• Extensive exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live lab environment.

Course Customisation Options

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

Model-Based Development (MBD) is a software development methodology that enables faster, more cost-effective development of dynamic systems such as control systems, signal processing and communication systems. It relies on graphic modelling rather than the traditional text based programming.

In this instructor-led, live training participants will learn how to apply MBD methodologies to reduce development costs and accelerate the time to market of their embedded software products.

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

• Select and utilise the right tools for implementing MBD.
• Use MBD to carry out rapid development in the early stages of their embedded software project.
• Shorten the release of their embedded software into the market.

Format of the course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

A microservice architecture involves developing a software application as a collection of small, autonomous services, each operating in its own process and communicating via lightweight mechanisms such as HTTP resource APIs. These services can be efficiently deployed through continuous automation systems, eliminating the need for centralized management. They may be built using various programming languages and integrated with different data storage solutions.

This instructor-led live training is designed for enterprise developers and architects. It introduces microservice architecture from a .Net perspective, outlines strategies for migrating from monolithic systems, and guides participants through the creation and deployment of a sample microservice-based application.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

• Identify appropriate scenarios for using and avoiding microservice architecture
• Develop and implement a testing strategy for microservices
• Deploy a sample microservice-based application into a production environment
• Refactor a monolithic application into individual services

Audience

• Developers
• Architects

Course Format

• A blend of lectures, discussions, exercises, and extensive hands-on practice

This course is tailored for seasoned programmers keen on addressing challenges associated with employing design patterns and refactoring. By the end, participants will understand the fundamental characteristics and practical applications of these patterns, empowering them to efficiently construct and correct application code.

As distributed systems have become increasingly intricate, the challenge has shifted from managing the complexity of individual systems to navigating the architectural complexity of interconnected system groups. This course explores the relationship between Software Architecture and Technical Enterprise Architecture. These two domains are deeply intertwined, yet their interaction is often inadequately articulated. For instance, decomposing a complex monolithic system into two separate systems that communicate via web services necessitates significant adjustments to both the new systems and the architecture connecting them.

This course will examine the trade-offs, widely adopted patterns, and solutions for managing complex systems and the communications within and between them.

Audience:

Developers, programmers, business analysts, project managers, software architects, testers, documentation specialists, or anyone involved in the software development lifecycle.

Objectives:

Equips you to work with a wide range of UML elements
Teaches you how to create complex UML models
Prepares you to become a qualified senior member of a UML Development Team.