introduction

This course is designed to take graduate-level individuals to a point where they can be actively involved and billable in a Business Central project within 3-4 months. It combines highly interactive classroom training, utilising a variety of didactic approaches, with back-to-work practical activities to hone those skills taught in the classroom. The course is residential, ensuring maximum benefit is gained from a continuous learning environment.

The course covers relevant essential aspects of Dynamics 365 Business Central and is aimed to grow a general professional skillset

The program will be concluded with a major project integrating all topics and skills that have been covered and acquired during the training.

results

• Basic functional understanding of Business Central
• Able to extend Business Central functionality and being able to execute the same
• Recognize and use design patterns, coding standards and coding best practices (including the use of docker and Azure DevOps)
• Exchange data with the outside world, write test automation and upgrade data
• Know what it is asked from a Business Central developer in terms fulfilling daily tasks

who?

The course ramps up participants to take them forward down an IT-career path starting with consultancy. Although not compulsory, candidates would benefit if they are familiar with Dynamics 365 Business Central or have some working knowledge of the software and application, either as a user or help desk support member, for example.

technology and competence requirements

Delegates are expected to participate in the course using their own laptop/tablet computer pre-loaded with a Dynamics 365 Business Central Cronus database, Windows 10 or 11 and Microsoft Office 2016 or 2019.
Minimum competence for delegates is an understanding of the Microsoft environment and to have reasonable Microsoft Office abilities.

certification

Delegates will receive a certificate confirming their participation in the course. This in itself does not provide the necessary accreditation required by Microsoft but in time, we believe will set its own standard.

terms and conditions

Delegates and their respective employers are required to agree to the standard terms and conditions for attendees of Opgona courses, which will include, Non-Disclosure and Non-Poaching clauses designed to protect the interest of all parties.

program

Dynamics 365 Business Central Introduction, including history, explanation and exercises teaching the main modules, finishing with overall case.
Note that this topic will be covered in the first week of the course in a joined class with the functional track.

Technology environment, including architecture, object design, security, licensing, localisation and add-ons.

Installation and Configuration, including roles & permissions, user set-up, and the use of docker

Development Life-cycle (Specify > Develop > Test), including Roles in a project, methodologies, planning, development, QA and post project support.

Solution Development and Development Standards, including Development environment, programming, standards, object development, Web services, SQL, performance and debugging.

Report Writing, including guidelines and best practices.

Data exchange, including use of web services and API’s

For the applicable week schedule have a look at Course Calendar.

Week 1: Introduction Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Week 1 entails an introduction of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central for both the functional and technical track. The student will get familiar with the history and user interface of the product and his basic settings. At the end of the week the student can execute the most basic transactions regarding financial management, purchase, sales and inventory management. The week will finish with an overall case which covers previous topics.

Week 2: Development Introduction / Installation & Configuration
In week 2 we will dive straight into the VS Code development environment. After an introduction to tables and pages, the foundation of the first development case will be build. To be completed by implementing business rules using AL code. As developers should be able to set up their development environment attention will also be paid to installation and configuration matters. This week will be concluded on the role of a developer with an implementation project

Week 3: Solution Development & Development Standards
Integrating functional and technical skills worked on in week 1 and 2, week 3 will learn the students the different design patterns a typical module in Dynamics 365 BC is built from. They will directly apply this newly gained knowledge in a new case and while doing this learn about planning and source code management using ADO (Azure DevOps).
On the concluding day of week 3, a new assignment will be given, in which the students have to apply things learned.

Week 4a and b: Reporting, Data Exchange, Upgrading & Test Automation
Week 4 will shed light on a miscellaneous set of topics like report design, data exchange, data upgrade and automated testing.
Originally this week was held onsite, but during COVID times we were forced to execute it online. To be healthy we decided to spread it over two weeks with only instructions and direct contact with trainer during morning hours. In the afternoon students did work on their own. As this setup proved to be very meaningful we have decided to leave it like this in the course schedule.

Week 5: Integration Project
Having worked 4+ course weeks on a vast number of Dynamics 365 BC technical topics, the students are set to get working on an integrating project in which they will be challenged on what they have learned.
This week, the training as such, will be concluded by a demo of the outcome of the project and will be judged by a team of board of experts.

costs and payment plan

The cost for the entire 25-day residential course is € 8.750 which includes all residential costs from Monday morning through to Friday afternoon, each week. It also includes all course materials.

Payment is made in stages, as follows:

• €3.800 paid three weeks before course commencement
• €3.150 paid following week 3 delivery
• €1.800 on completion

Cancellation fees will apply if course or payment schedule is not completed. Within 4 weeks before start of the course it is possible to unsubscribe without penalty. After this a cancellation fee of €2.750 applies.

Your investment for the training is € 8.750 for 25+ full days of training, which is only €  350,- per day including housing and catering.

In the traditional recruitment model, the financial considerations are likely to be:

• potential salary of a new employee – €42k
• recruitment costs/fees – €5k
• fully utilized after 6 months
• additional training may be required

The junior training model will look more like this:

• potential salary of the individual – €26k
• no recruitment fees
• fully utilized in 4 months
• training costs – €6.5k