Category: Oasis Digital News

On-site is back – COVID-19 pandemic update

Last spring when the pandemic arrived, we quickly transitioned to 95% online operations, as detailed in our post at the time. Throughout, Oasis Digital has continued serving customers online/remotely, delivering results effectively albeit less conveniently. We have had no known workplace-spread illness.

Here is the United States, as of April 2021 the pandemic appears to be winding down quickly. Most of our team is vaccinated, our headquarters office is in full use, and client interest in on-site / in-person engagements has started to return.

Therefore, we are now scheduling on-site client engagements, of course with due care and precautions.

Our open-enrollment classes will gradually include in-person dates later in 2021.

(We are keenly aware that the pandemic is currently much worse in some other areas of the world.)

Advanced, Angular-related training and mentoring

About five years ago (it feels like forever) Oasis Digital started training on Angular. Our flagship course Angular Boot Camp has become quite popular, we’ve taught it many hundreds of times to many thousands of students. For the first few years, this offering was a perfect fit for almost every company that contacted us, as software teams were initially adopting Angular. Over the last few years though, Angular has become mature and robust, and Angular has achieved broad adoption across organizations large and small. Aggregate needs of Angular teams inevitably shift toward bigger scale, more difficult and important uses of the technology.

As a result, our training efforts have substantially pivoted toward more advanced topics.

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The Oasis Digital Spectrum of Services

In the early years of Oasis Digital, we offered exactly one service: outsourced software development contracting. Since then, we’ve expanded to a spectrum of related services. The result doesn’t fit in an “elevator pitch”, but it meets the needs of customers much better. Our “spectrum of services” will be more clear on our main website and elsewhere over time, but this blog post explains it as succinctly as we can. Ranked in approximate order from smallest to largest, we offer:

1) Free technical content

Our expert developers/trainers speak and write about relevant technical topics, and the results are almost always freely available: talks on our YouTube channel, posts on our blog, our twitter accounts, and so on. Further, we attend various conferences and are always happy to speak to people who come talk with us there.

2) Tickets to public classes

We teach on several technical topics, most prominently Angular Boot Camp. Class tickets are a great fit for an individual developer or small group, who can purchase, then attend online or in person around the US and occasionally around the world.

3) Private training classes

To train a whole team at once, we offer private classes, both online and in-person. Private classes can also easily be extended with add-on days of customized consulting and training, for customers looking for added value. Some customers engage us for a series of private classes.

4) Application assessment

An application assessment is a short consulting engagement (typically 1 week, with 1 or 2 of our experts) in which we meet with a new customer in-depth, to assess an application (or understand the vision of an application). The assessment includes a written report, and (if needed) a proposal for future recommended work.

5) Ongoing expert assistance

Oasis Digital can provide ongoing expert assistance, in a retainer-like arrangement. We regularly meet with your developers, to help with questions, issues, code review, design guidance, and implementation of key areas. We have different packages depending on how much assistance each month you need.

6) Agile product development

In an Agile development project, a Oasis Digital works with a customer on an iterative basis, prioritizing features (“stories”), responding to changes and guidance. Such a project is especially amenable when the product vision is established but feature needs are still evolving. An Agile project is straightforward to contract and price (based on the team size), and can start quickly then last as long as needed. We often begin Agile projects with Oasis Digital developers, then gradually integrate customer developers over time for an eventual handover. The project style is also well suited when Oasis Digital is joining an existing effort already in progress.

7) Scoped product development

In a scope product/project, the features needed are worked out in advance (a scoping effort might be part of an application assessment, for example) so that Oasis Digital can provide a price and schedule to achieve that known list of features and surrounding goals. This style of project is decidedly less agile (changes and additional features are generally implemented after successful delivery of the initial scope), but can also ultimately be more efficient – our experts are especially adept at skipping directly to a high quality approach, avoiding false starts and reducing rework during iteration.

 

Angular Boot Camp, London UK

A number of companies in Europe have inquired about our Angular Boot Camp immersive Angular class, and a few threatened to send students across the ocean to attend one of our public classes. So when we saw that the 2015 European Angular conference (Angular Connect) is in easily-accessible London, we stepped in as a sponsor, and decided to offer Angular Boot Camp a few weeks thereafter, also in London.

After many weeks of paperwork delays, we have been issued the appropriate VAT number to do business there, and are pleased to announce our first offering of Angular Boot Camp across an ocean. The venue is a training facility in Wokingham, not far from Heathrow and easily accessible by train to downtown London. The dates are 3-5 November 2015, please see the site for more information and to register.

 

Early Start with Angular 2 – New Class Offering

We have been using Angular version 1.x for years now, and following version 2 development with great interest. Things have come together greatly over the last few months, after having somewhat wandered prior to that. We feel like now is the time to dig into version 2.

There been comments by the core Angular team also, which indicate that now is the time for developers to start previewing the new release.

For companies that want to dig in deep, we are now offering a brand-new “Early Start with Angular 2” class. The first scheduled date is in November in St. Louis, the second in early December in San Francisco.

(This does not replace our Angular Boot Camp class, it is firmly oriented toward immediate production use of Angular, and will remain so at least until version 2 ships as a final production form, and perhaps even thereafter for companies still using version 1.)