Hyrax International LLC offers a variety of on-site and distance-enabled workshops. Our products focus on process improvement, communication, quality assurance and risk management strategies. We’ve partnered with management leaders, subject matter experts and coaches to deliver superb training to your team.

Our workshops offer comprehensive, hands-on experiential training that’s tailored to your needs. Most of our programs integrate the training workshop directly into your daily work schedule and project goals. This means your team is trained using hands-on, specific experience — they start practicing what they learn immediately.

We offer a variety of training programs, providing an unbiased, practical education. As a participant in our courses you gain the essential information to improve your policies, practices and procedures. Our courses are tailored to exactly meet your training requirements and include numerous exercises to reinforce key concepts and activities.

Check out our product catalog for a complete list of available workshops, such as:

• Rational Scrum™ workshop
• Communicate effectively: Presentation zen & other workshops
• Monitoring project health (or, “What is my PM telling me?”)
• Delivering impossible projects on time and on budget
• Being a good project sponsor: Leading for success
• Predicting, quantifying and neutralizing problems before they occur
• Subcontract management
• Measuring project progress with metrics
• Delivering quality software and defining quality attributes

The value of training

It’s not the individual but the organization that reaps most of the benefits of training. Studies have examined the question of who benefits more from training, the employee or the company, and have found that the organizational benefits of training are extensive. In fact, these studies have concluded that the effect of one hour of employee training benefits the employer over five times the corresponding wage growth. Another concludes that typical return on investment ranges from 100 to 200 percent — making training one of the best investments an employer can make.

The simple truth in today’s information-intensive workforce is: Intellectual property is the defining differentiator of any organization. By enhancing its intellectual property strength, an organization is contributing directly to its bottom line. Training programs increase employee skills and knowledge, enhance performance and efficiency, and result in increased profitability.

Successful training

On-site training workshops and comprehensive, hands-on process improvement programs incorporating training elements are the most effective tools available to ensure that trainees, and the organization, fully employ new knowledge. This kind of program involves an initial assessment to determine organization weaknesses and risk areas, target specific training and process improvement needs, and deliver very specific activities consisting of training, workshops, hands-on application, and some form of monitoring or “health check” over time to ensure the knowledge continues to be properly, and consistently, applied. A successful program must create a continuous learning environment, where learners acquire knowledge and hone their skills after the learning event is finished.

Certification

Certification is a way for candidates to gain specific knowledge followed by a validating examination that demonstrates their capabilities in a practical environment. Organizations with high attention to procedure and best practices encourage their personnel to become Certified Specialists to convey that the organization approaches disciplined development with both theory and knowledge and that it performs in a manner accepted by the relevant standards boards. Candidates receiving certification demonstrate that they are using the best practices to ensure performance and accountability.

Hyrax International LLC offers certifications in several program areas, including quality assurance, project and program management topics and of course, Rational Scrum™. Enjoy the benefits of certification and enhance your team productivity today:

• Keeping knowledge current. The individual improves their skills; the organization motivates and energizes their employees and realizes benefits from best practices.
• New discoveries in the field. The training and certification programs available today provide a venue for tapping into that knowledge, and in many cases alumni associations create communities to share and develop ideas.
• Demonstrating skill in established standards. Certification testifies that an individual is capable and competent in standards of practice.
• Establishing a few standards. Being involved in evolving standards helps to establish a common point of reference and reduce internal miscommunication.
• Assuring baseline knowledge. Putting everyone on the same page means greater efficiency, improved communication and more reliable results.