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&lt;h2 id="skills_covered"&gt;Skills Covered&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian training helps you take control of your projects and feel confident in your team&amp;rsquo;s ability to manage your Appian applications.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Skills Checklist:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul style="font-size:115%;"&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Identify the four basic team roles&amp;nbsp;that make up&amp;nbsp;an Appian team.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Recall appropriate training path for each basic team role.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Explain the three available Appian educational experiences.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Match each basic team&amp;nbsp;role to an associated certification pathway.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h2 id="appian_learning_experiences"&gt;Appian Learning Experiences&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;At Appian, our goal is to provide you with the resources you need to become self-sufficient. To aid in that effort, we offer a variety of learning experiences suited to your needs and student learning preferences.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;On-demand online training&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Most Appian training offerings are available for free and on demand through our extensive &lt;a href="https://academy.appian.com/"&gt;Academy Online&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;library. This should be your first stop for Appian training at any level.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Online trainings run as fast or as slow as a student needs. As part of our learning methodology, we design each course around active learning. This means students are encouraged to&amp;nbsp;perform the exercises given for each module.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Instructor-led training&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Talented Appian instructors take students on a guided learning experience. Students work at a set group pace alongside their classmates. The topics and objectives for instructor-led training are the same as the online courses, but the instructor is able to mentor and guide each student along the way. In addition, instructor-led training has the added benefit of collaboration and accountability among classmates, which ensures vital concepts are practiced and retained.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="emoticon" data-url="https://community.appian.com/cfs-file/__key/system/emoji/1f4a1.svg" title="Bulb"&gt;&amp;#x1f4a1;&lt;/span&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Some instructor-led courses, such as Applied Development, do not have online equivalents and can only be&amp;nbsp;taken in the classroom format.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h3&gt;Instructor-assisted training&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;We believe in flexibility and realize that many students benefit from a hybrid training format. For this type of student, we offer instructor-assisted training.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Under this learning experience, students primarily work on their own through the online curriculum. However, students have the added benefit&amp;nbsp;of an&amp;nbsp;instructor&amp;nbsp;hosting live lectures and the ability to meet with the instructor as needed during completion of the course.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;While completing the instructor-assisted curriculum, students are able to continue performing their day-to-day work duties. This eases the burden on students and employers alike, who often can&amp;#39;t afford to&amp;nbsp;put off&amp;nbsp;their current responsibilities for extended and demanding training sessions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="core_roles_and_training"&gt;Core Roles and Training&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;At Appian, we think a successful team is a combination of a few select roles that each play an important&amp;nbsp;part in project outcomes. When our education services team talks to customers and partners who are just beginning their Appian journey, one of the first things we want them to understand is the who. In other words, before you even begin to select the right training for your Appian team, you need to know who is supposed to be on the team to begin with. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Leaders&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian leaders, including Appian stakeholders and decision makers, benefit most from the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/appian-overview"&gt;Appian Overview course&lt;/a&gt;. It&amp;rsquo;s a lightweight curriculum that covers the basics and introduces students to Appian terminology and capabilities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Planners&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian planners, such as business analysts and project managers, should complete the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/appian-foundations"&gt;Appian Foundations&lt;/a&gt; course. This training curriculum covers our methodology and teaches students how to properly gather and define requirements. As part of that objective, each student will learn the main objects and components of Appian and how they are used to solve business problems.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Builders&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Builders are the core of your team, so they should complete our most comprehensive course, the &lt;a href="/learn/courses#learn-builder"&gt;Appian Developer training&lt;/a&gt;. More specific training paths for developers are outlined under Developer Courses below.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Administrators&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Administrators benefit from two different courses. The Application Owner, who is responsible for the health and maintenance of existing applications, benefits most from the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/application-administrator"&gt;Application Administrator course&lt;/a&gt;. Going a step beyond that, System administrators benefit from the &lt;a href="/learn/courses#learn-admin"&gt;Appian Administrator course&lt;/a&gt;. In this course, students learn how to manage Appian instances and servers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Learn more about these roles and responsibilities in&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="/success/w/article/2987/low-code-team-essentials"&gt;Low-code Team Essentials&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="developer_courses"&gt;Developer Courses&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;The primary role of a &lt;a href="/success/w/article/2982/build-your-low-code-development-team"&gt;low-code developer&lt;/a&gt; is executing the project backlog and building an application. As a developer gains more experience, they may choose to become either a senior / lead developer or put their skills into becoming a test manager. Whatever the path, here are some esssential courses to consider when training developers. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Associate Developers&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian Associate Developers start with the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/developer"&gt;Appian Developer course&lt;/a&gt;. This teaches them how to build each low-code Appian object, build user interfaces, and construct automation workflows based on application requirements.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;After that, we suggest they also participate in the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/applied-development"&gt;Appian Applied Development training&lt;/a&gt;, which builds on everything a student learns in the Developer curriculum by simulating an actual project with Appian. Students learn how to put our methodology into practice by planning and executing simple application architecture patterns according to the software development life cycle (SDLC).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Senior Developers&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;The goal for an Appian Senior Developer is to implement best practices of performance, scalability, usability, and maintainability. Since working developers are quite busy, we broke down the major interest areas into smaller individual courses. This allows Appian practitioners to get training only on the topic they need, when they need it. Completing each course is optional, but all of the topics covered in the Senior Developer series appear on the Senior Developer Certification exam.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul style="font-size:115%;"&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/advanced-ux-design"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Advanced UX Design&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt; teaches students how to optimize interfaces and better address the needs of users through improved research, planning, and testing of user interfaces.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/applied-ui"&gt;Applied UI&lt;/a&gt; builds on UX Design knowledge from the Advanced UX training to walk students through constructing elegant, efficient, and complex interfaces using Appian best practices.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/delivery-methodology"&gt;Appian Delivery Methodology&lt;/a&gt; builds on the software development life cycle students learned at the Associate level, and dives deeper into release strategies, backlog refinement, testing, education, support, and more.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-expressions"&gt;Advanced Expressions&lt;/a&gt; is an excellent course for students who come to Appian without deep programming backgrounds and teaches low-code best practices for performance and reusability.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-integrations"&gt;Advanced Integrations&lt;/a&gt; teaches students to better utilize APIs across applications, implement authentication protocols, and troubleshoot performance issues with integrations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-process-modeling"&gt;Appian Advanced Process Modeling&lt;/a&gt; provides several examples of common workflow patterns, and teaches students how to scale flexible processes for efficiency and high frequency.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-data-design"&gt;Advanced Data Design&lt;/a&gt; provides a deep dive into how Appian interacts with relational databases. This training curriculum helps students distinguish between different data structures, optimize queries, understand load testing, and best utilize Appian Data Sync capabilities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/appian-qa"&gt;Quality Testing&lt;/a&gt; teaches students how to implement the Appian proven quality assurance methodology into their applications. Students learn how to &amp;ldquo;bake in&amp;rdquo; testing criteria and tools at every step of the development process.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/appian-automation"&gt;Appian Automation&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="/training/courses/p/appian-applied-rpa"&gt;Applied RPA&lt;/a&gt; deepen developer skills by teaching implementation of Appian Robotic Process Automation, Intelligent Document Processing, and how to recognize the right use for the tools.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Lead Developers&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian Lead Developers primarily benefit from experience gained in the field. In fact, everything a Lead Developer needs to know has already been taught at the Senior Developer level&amp;mdash;the missing piece is simply practice. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="certification"&gt;Certification&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;While getting the right training is an&amp;nbsp;essential&amp;nbsp;first step, we also believe that it&amp;rsquo;s important to officially validate the knowledge and experience gained from training. To that end, we offer the &lt;a href="/learn/certifications"&gt;Appian Certification Program&lt;/a&gt;. We follow industry standards for development and security to ensure our certifications are reliable and trustworthy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;We brought in Appian experts from around the world under the tutelage of certification experts to help build the foundations of the program. A team of expert practitioners defined the expectations and skills to be measured for developers and analysts and then set about creating exams that validate those skills and expectations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Analyst Certification&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Non-developer team members, such as business analysts, project managers, product owners and UX designers, can benefit from the &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/certified-analyst"&gt;The Appian Certified Analyst exam&lt;/a&gt;. This certification will validate knowledge and training centered around planning successful projects.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Developer Certification&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Your developers should start down the developer certification pathway, which includes &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/associate-developer"&gt;Associate Developer&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/senior-developer"&gt;Senior Developer&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/lead-developer"&gt;Lead Developer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="downloadable_resources"&gt;Downloadable Resources&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-00-46/Validating-Appian-Developer-Certifications-FAQs.pdf"&gt;Validating Appian Developer Certifications: FAQs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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</description></item><item><title>Train Your Appian Team</title><link>https://community.appian.com/success/w/guide/2969/train-your-appian-team/revision/12</link><pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2023 17:20:23 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:f03278a6-4969-4877-b2dc-c3296c0046ca</guid><dc:creator>Devon Lee</dc:creator><comments>https://community.appian.com/success/w/guide/2969/train-your-appian-team#comments</comments><description>Revision 12 posted to Guide by Devon Lee on 8/31/2023 5:20:23 PM&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;h2 id="skills_covered"&gt;Skills Covered&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian training helps you take control of your projects and feel confident in your team&amp;rsquo;s ability to manage your Appian applications.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Skills Checklist:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul style="font-size:115%;"&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Identify the four basic team roles&amp;nbsp;that make up&amp;nbsp;an Appian team.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Recall appropriate training path for each basic team role.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Explain the three available Appian educational experiences.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Match each basic team&amp;nbsp;role to an associated certification pathway.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h2 id="appian_learning_experiences"&gt;Appian Learning Experiences&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;At Appian, our goal is to provide you with the resources you need to become self-sufficient. To aid in that effort, we offer a variety of learning experiences suited to your needs and student learning preferences.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;On-demand online training&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Most Appian training offerings are available for free and on demand through our extensive &lt;a href="https://academy.appian.com/"&gt;Academy Online&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;library. This should be your first stop for Appian training at any level.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Online trainings run as fast or as slow as a student needs. As part of our learning methodology, we design each course around active learning. This means students are encouraged to&amp;nbsp;perform the exercises given for each module.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Instructor-led training&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Talented Appian instructors take students on a guided learning experience. Students work at a set group pace alongside their classmates. The topics and objectives for instructor-led training are the same as the online courses, but the instructor is able to mentor and guide each student along the way. In addition, instructor-led training has the added benefit of collaboration and accountability among classmates, which ensures vital concepts are practiced and retained.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="emoticon" data-url="https://community.appian.com/cfs-file/__key/system/emoji/1f4a1.svg" title="Bulb"&gt;&amp;#x1f4a1;&lt;/span&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Some instructor-led courses, such as Applied Development, do not have online equivalents and can only be&amp;nbsp;taken in the classroom format.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h3&gt;Instructor-assisted training&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;We believe in flexibility and realize that many students benefit from a hybrid training format. For this type of student, we offer instructor-assisted training.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Under this learning experience, students primarily work on their own through the online curriculum. However, students have the added benefit&amp;nbsp;of an&amp;nbsp;instructor&amp;nbsp;hosting live lectures and the ability to meet with the instructor as needed during completion of the course.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;While completing the instructor-assisted curriculum, students are able to continue performing their day-to-day work duties. This eases the burden on students and employers alike, who often can&amp;#39;t afford to&amp;nbsp;put off&amp;nbsp;their current responsibilities for extended and demanding training sessions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="core_roles_and_training"&gt;Core Roles and Training&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;At Appian, we think a successful team is a combination of a few select roles that each play an important&amp;nbsp;part in project outcomes. When our education services team talks to customers and partners who are just beginning their Appian journey, one of the first things we want them to understand is the who. In other words, before you even begin to select the right training for your Appian team, you need to know who is supposed to be on the team to begin with. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Leaders&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian leaders, including Appian stakeholders and decision makers, benefit most from the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/appian-overview"&gt;Appian Overview course&lt;/a&gt;. It&amp;rsquo;s a lightweight curriculum that covers the basics and introduces students to Appian terminology and capabilities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Planners&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian planners, such as business analysts and project managers, should complete the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/appian-foundations"&gt;Appian Foundations&lt;/a&gt; course. This training curriculum covers our methodology and teaches students how to properly gather and define requirements. As part of that objective, each student will learn the main objects and components of Appian and how they are used to solve business problems.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Builders&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Builders are the core of your team, so they should complete our most comprehensive course, the &lt;a href="/learn/courses#learn-builder"&gt;Appian Developer training&lt;/a&gt;. More specific training paths for developers are outlined under Developer Courses below.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Administrators&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Administrators benefit from two different courses. The Application Owner, who is responsible for the health and maintenance of existing applications, benefits most from the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/application-administrator"&gt;Application Administrator course&lt;/a&gt;. Going a step beyond that, System administrators benefit from the &lt;a href="/learn/courses#learn-admin"&gt;Appian Administrator course&lt;/a&gt;. In this course, students learn how to manage Appian instances and servers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Learn more about these roles and responsibilities in&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="/success/w/article/2987/low-code-team-essentials"&gt;Low-code Team Essentials&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="developer_courses"&gt;Developer Courses&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;The primary role of a &lt;a href="/success/w/article/2982/build-your-low-code-development-team"&gt;low-code developer&lt;/a&gt; is executing the project backlog and building an application. As a developer gains more experience, they may choose to become either a senior / lead developer or put their skills into becoming a test manager. Whatever the path, here are some esssential courses to consider when training developers. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Associate Developers&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian Associate Developers start with the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/developer"&gt;Appian Developer course&lt;/a&gt;. This teaches them how to build each low-code Appian object, build user interfaces, and construct automation workflows based on application requirements.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;After that, we suggest they also participate in the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/applied-development"&gt;Appian Applied Development training&lt;/a&gt;, which builds on everything a student learns in the Developer curriculum by simulating an actual project with Appian. Students learn how to put our methodology into practice by planning and executing simple application architecture patterns according to the software development life cycle (SDLC).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Senior Developers&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;The goal for an Appian Senior Developer is to implement best practices of performance, scalability, usability, and maintainability. Since working developers are quite busy, we broke down the major interest areas into smaller individual courses. This allows Appian practitioners to get training only on the topic they need, when they need it. Completing each course is optional, but all of the topics covered in the Senior Developer series appear on the Senior Developer Certification exam.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul style="font-size:115%;"&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/advanced-ux-design"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Advanced UX Design&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt; teaches students how to optimize interfaces and better address the needs of users through improved research, planning, and testing of user interfaces.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/applied-ui"&gt;Applied UI&lt;/a&gt; builds on UX Design knowledge from the Advanced UX training to walk students through constructing elegant, efficient, and complex interfaces using Appian best practices.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/delivery-methodology"&gt;Appian Delivery Methodology&lt;/a&gt; builds on the software development life cycle students learned at the Associate level, and dives deeper into release strategies, backlog refinement, testing, education, support, and more.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-expressions"&gt;Advanced Expressions&lt;/a&gt; is an excellent course for students who come to Appian without deep programming backgrounds and teaches low-code best practices for performance and reusability.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-integrations"&gt;Advanced Integrations&lt;/a&gt; teaches students to better utilize APIs across applications, implement authentication protocols, and troubleshoot performance issues with integrations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-process-modeling"&gt;Appian Advanced Process Modeling&lt;/a&gt; provides several examples of common workflow patterns, and teaches students how to scale flexible processes for efficiency and high frequency.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-data-design"&gt;Advanced Data Design&lt;/a&gt; provides a deep dive into how Appian interacts with relational databases. This training curriculum helps students distinguish between different data structures, optimize queries, understand load testing, and best utilize Appian Data Sync capabilities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/appian-qa"&gt;Quality Testing&lt;/a&gt; teaches students how to implement the Appian proven quality assurance methodology into their applications. Students learn how to &amp;ldquo;bake in&amp;rdquo; testing criteria and tools at every step of the development process.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/appian-automation"&gt;Appian Automation&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="/training/courses/p/appian-applied-rpa"&gt;Applied RPA&lt;/a&gt; deepen developer skills by teaching implementation of Appian Robotic Process Automation, Intelligent Document Processing, and how to recognize the right use for the tools.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Lead Developers&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian Lead Developers primarily benefit from experience gained in the field. In fact, everything a Lead Developer needs to know has already been taught at the Senior Developer level&amp;mdash;the missing piece is simply practice. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="certification"&gt;Certification&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;While getting the right training is an&amp;nbsp;essential&amp;nbsp;first step, we also believe that it&amp;rsquo;s important to officially validate the knowledge and experience gained from training. To that end, we offer the &lt;a href="/learn/certifications"&gt;Appian Certification Program&lt;/a&gt;. We follow industry standards for development and security to ensure our certifications are reliable and trustworthy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;We brought in Appian experts from around the world under the tutelage of certification experts to help build the foundations of the program. A team of expert practitioners defined the expectations and skills to be measured for developers and analysts and then set about creating exams that validate those skills and expectations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Analyst Certification&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Non-developer team members, such as business analysts, project managers, product owners and UX designers, can benefit from the &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/certified-analyst"&gt;The Appian Certified Analyst exam&lt;/a&gt;. This certification will validate knowledge and training centered around planning successful projects.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Developer Certification&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Your developers should start down the developer certification pathway, which includes &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/associate-developer"&gt;Associate Developer&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/senior-developer"&gt;Senior Developer&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/lead-developer"&gt;Lead Developer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="downloadable_resources"&gt;Downloadable Resources&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul style="font-size:115%;"&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-00-46/Validating-Appian-Developer-Certifications-FAQs.pdf"&gt;Validating Appian Developer Certifications: FAQs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Tags: Training, People&lt;/div&gt;
</description></item><item><title>Train Your Appian Team</title><link>https://community.appian.com/success/w/guide/2969/train-your-appian-team/revision/11</link><pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2023 17:20:13 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:f03278a6-4969-4877-b2dc-c3296c0046ca</guid><dc:creator>Devon Lee</dc:creator><comments>https://community.appian.com/success/w/guide/2969/train-your-appian-team#comments</comments><description>Revision 11 posted to Guide by Devon Lee on 8/31/2023 5:20:13 PM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="margin:8px 16% 8px 8%;"&gt;
&lt;h2 id="skills_covered"&gt;Skills Covered&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian training helps you take control of your projects and feel confident in your team&amp;rsquo;s ability to manage your Appian applications.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Skills Checklist:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul style="font-size:115%;"&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Identify the four basic team roles&amp;nbsp;that make up&amp;nbsp;an Appian team.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Recall appropriate training path for each basic team role.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Explain the three available Appian educational experiences.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Match each basic team&amp;nbsp;role to an associated certification pathway.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h2 id="appian_learning_experiences"&gt;Appian Learning Experiences&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;At Appian, our goal is to provide you with the resources you need to become self-sufficient. To aid in that effort, we offer a variety of learning experiences suited to your needs and student learning preferences.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;On-demand online training&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Most Appian training offerings are available for free and on demand through our extensive &lt;a href="https://academy.appian.com/"&gt;Academy Online&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;library. This should be your first stop for Appian training at any level.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Online trainings run as fast or as slow as a student needs. As part of our learning methodology, we design each course around active learning. This means students are encouraged to&amp;nbsp;perform the exercises given for each module.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Instructor-led training&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Talented Appian instructors take students on a guided learning experience. Students work at a set group pace alongside their classmates. The topics and objectives for instructor-led training are the same as the online courses, but the instructor is able to mentor and guide each student along the way. In addition, instructor-led training has the added benefit of collaboration and accountability among classmates, which ensures vital concepts are practiced and retained.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table style="border-color:#c3ddf5;" border="2"&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="emoticon" data-url="https://community.appian.com/cfs-file/__key/system/emoji/1f4a1.svg" title="Bulb"&gt;&amp;#x1f4a1;&lt;/span&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Some instructor-led courses, such as Applied Development, do not have online equivalents and can only be&amp;nbsp;taken in the classroom format.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Instructor-assisted training&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;We believe in flexibility and realize that many students benefit from a hybrid training format. For this type of student, we offer instructor-assisted training.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Under this learning experience, students primarily work on their own through the online curriculum. However, students have the added benefit&amp;nbsp;of an&amp;nbsp;instructor&amp;nbsp;hosting live lectures and the ability to meet with the instructor as needed during completion of the course.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;While completing the instructor-assisted curriculum, students are able to continue performing their day-to-day work duties. This eases the burden on students and employers alike, who often can&amp;#39;t afford to&amp;nbsp;put off&amp;nbsp;their current responsibilities for extended and demanding training sessions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="core_roles_and_training"&gt;Core Roles and Training&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;At Appian, we think a successful team is a combination of a few select roles that each play an important&amp;nbsp;part in project outcomes. When our education services team talks to customers and partners who are just beginning their Appian journey, one of the first things we want them to understand is the who. In other words, before you even begin to select the right training for your Appian team, you need to know who is supposed to be on the team to begin with. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Leaders&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian leaders, including Appian stakeholders and decision makers, benefit most from the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/appian-overview"&gt;Appian Overview course&lt;/a&gt;. It&amp;rsquo;s a lightweight curriculum that covers the basics and introduces students to Appian terminology and capabilities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Planners&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian planners, such as business analysts and project managers, should complete the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/appian-foundations"&gt;Appian Foundations&lt;/a&gt; course. This training curriculum covers our methodology and teaches students how to properly gather and define requirements. As part of that objective, each student will learn the main objects and components of Appian and how they are used to solve business problems.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Builders&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Builders are the core of your team, so they should complete our most comprehensive course, the &lt;a href="/learn/courses#learn-builder"&gt;Appian Developer training&lt;/a&gt;. More specific training paths for developers are outlined under Developer Courses below.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Administrators&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Administrators benefit from two different courses. The Application Owner, who is responsible for the health and maintenance of existing applications, benefits most from the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/application-administrator"&gt;Application Administrator course&lt;/a&gt;. Going a step beyond that, System administrators benefit from the &lt;a href="/learn/courses#learn-admin"&gt;Appian Administrator course&lt;/a&gt;. In this course, students learn how to manage Appian instances and servers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Learn more about these roles and responsibilities in&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="/success/w/article/2987/low-code-team-essentials"&gt;Low-code Team Essentials&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="developer_courses"&gt;Developer Courses&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;The primary role of a &lt;a href="/success/w/article/2982/build-your-low-code-development-team"&gt;low-code developer&lt;/a&gt; is executing the project backlog and building an application. As a developer gains more experience, they may choose to become either a senior / lead developer or put their skills into becoming a test manager. Whatever the path, here are some esssential courses to consider when training developers. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Associate Developers&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian Associate Developers start with the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/developer"&gt;Appian Developer course&lt;/a&gt;. This teaches them how to build each low-code Appian object, build user interfaces, and construct automation workflows based on application requirements.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;After that, we suggest they also participate in the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/applied-development"&gt;Appian Applied Development training&lt;/a&gt;, which builds on everything a student learns in the Developer curriculum by simulating an actual project with Appian. Students learn how to put our methodology into practice by planning and executing simple application architecture patterns according to the software development life cycle (SDLC).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Senior Developers&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;The goal for an Appian Senior Developer is to implement best practices of performance, scalability, usability, and maintainability. Since working developers are quite busy, we broke down the major interest areas into smaller individual courses. This allows Appian practitioners to get training only on the topic they need, when they need it. Completing each course is optional, but all of the topics covered in the Senior Developer series appear on the Senior Developer Certification exam.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul style="font-size:115%;"&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/advanced-ux-design"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Advanced UX Design&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt; teaches students how to optimize interfaces and better address the needs of users through improved research, planning, and testing of user interfaces.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/applied-ui"&gt;Applied UI&lt;/a&gt; builds on UX Design knowledge from the Advanced UX training to walk students through constructing elegant, efficient, and complex interfaces using Appian best practices.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/delivery-methodology"&gt;Appian Delivery Methodology&lt;/a&gt; builds on the software development life cycle students learned at the Associate level, and dives deeper into release strategies, backlog refinement, testing, education, support, and more.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-expressions"&gt;Advanced Expressions&lt;/a&gt; is an excellent course for students who come to Appian without deep programming backgrounds and teaches low-code best practices for performance and reusability.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-integrations"&gt;Advanced Integrations&lt;/a&gt; teaches students to better utilize APIs across applications, implement authentication protocols, and troubleshoot performance issues with integrations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-process-modeling"&gt;Appian Advanced Process Modeling&lt;/a&gt; provides several examples of common workflow patterns, and teaches students how to scale flexible processes for efficiency and high frequency.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-data-design"&gt;Advanced Data Design&lt;/a&gt; provides a deep dive into how Appian interacts with relational databases. This training curriculum helps students distinguish between different data structures, optimize queries, understand load testing, and best utilize Appian Data Sync capabilities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/appian-qa"&gt;Quality Testing&lt;/a&gt; teaches students how to implement the Appian proven quality assurance methodology into their applications. Students learn how to &amp;ldquo;bake in&amp;rdquo; testing criteria and tools at every step of the development process.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/appian-automation"&gt;Appian Automation&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="/training/courses/p/appian-applied-rpa"&gt;Applied RPA&lt;/a&gt; deepen developer skills by teaching implementation of Appian Robotic Process Automation, Intelligent Document Processing, and how to recognize the right use for the tools.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Lead Developers&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian Lead Developers primarily benefit from experience gained in the field. In fact, everything a Lead Developer needs to know has already been taught at the Senior Developer level&amp;mdash;the missing piece is simply practice. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="certification"&gt;Certification&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;While getting the right training is an&amp;nbsp;essential&amp;nbsp;first step, we also believe that it&amp;rsquo;s important to officially validate the knowledge and experience gained from training. To that end, we offer the &lt;a href="/learn/certifications"&gt;Appian Certification Program&lt;/a&gt;. We follow industry standards for development and security to ensure our certifications are reliable and trustworthy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;We brought in Appian experts from around the world under the tutelage of certification experts to help build the foundations of the program. A team of expert practitioners defined the expectations and skills to be measured for developers and analysts and then set about creating exams that validate those skills and expectations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Analyst Certification&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Non-developer team members, such as business analysts, project managers, product owners and UX designers, can benefit from the &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/certified-analyst"&gt;The Appian Certified Analyst exam&lt;/a&gt;. This certification will validate knowledge and training centered around planning successful projects.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Developer Certification&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Your developers should start down the developer certification pathway, which includes &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/associate-developer"&gt;Associate Developer&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/senior-developer"&gt;Senior Developer&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/lead-developer"&gt;Lead Developer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="downloadable_resources"&gt;Downloadable Resources&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul style="font-size:115%;"&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-00-46/Validating-Appian-Developer-Certifications-FAQs.pdf"&gt;Validating Appian Developer Certifications: FAQs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Tags: Display, Training, People&lt;/div&gt;
</description></item><item><title>Train Your Appian Team</title><link>https://community.appian.com/success/w/guide/2969/train-your-appian-team/revision/10</link><pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2023 17:20:03 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:f03278a6-4969-4877-b2dc-c3296c0046ca</guid><dc:creator>Devon Lee</dc:creator><comments>https://community.appian.com/success/w/guide/2969/train-your-appian-team#comments</comments><description>Revision 10 posted to Guide by Devon Lee on 8/31/2023 5:20:03 PM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="margin:8px 16% 8px 8%;"&gt;
&lt;h2 id="skills_covered"&gt;Skills Covered&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian training helps you take control of your projects and feel confident in your team&amp;rsquo;s ability to manage your Appian applications.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Skills Checklist:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul style="font-size:115%;"&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Identify the four basic team roles&amp;nbsp;that make up&amp;nbsp;an Appian team.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Recall appropriate training path for each basic team role.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Explain the three available Appian educational experiences.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Match each basic team&amp;nbsp;role to an associated certification pathway.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h2 id="appian_learning_experiences"&gt;Appian Learning Experiences&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;At Appian, our goal is to provide you with the resources you need to become self-sufficient. To aid in that effort, we offer a variety of learning experiences suited to your needs and student learning preferences.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;On-demand online training&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Most Appian training offerings are available for free and on demand through our extensive &lt;a href="https://academy.appian.com/"&gt;Academy Online&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;library. This should be your first stop for Appian training at any level.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Online trainings run as fast or as slow as a student needs. As part of our learning methodology, we design each course around active learning. This means students are encouraged to&amp;nbsp;perform the exercises given for each module.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Instructor-led training&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Talented Appian instructors take students on a guided learning experience. Students work at a set group pace alongside their classmates. The topics and objectives for instructor-led training are the same as the online courses, but the instructor is able to mentor and guide each student along the way. In addition, instructor-led training has the added benefit of collaboration and accountability among classmates, which ensures vital concepts are practiced and retained.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table style="border-color:#c3ddf5;" border="2"&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="emoticon" data-url="https://community.appian.com/cfs-file/__key/system/emoji/1f4a1.svg" title="Bulb"&gt;&amp;#x1f4a1;&lt;/span&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Some instructor-led courses, such as Applied Development, do not have online equivalents and can only be&amp;nbsp;taken in the classroom format.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Instructor-assisted training&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;We believe in flexibility and realize that many students benefit from a hybrid training format. For this type of student, we offer instructor-assisted training.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Under this learning experience, students primarily work on their own through the online curriculum. However, students have the added benefit&amp;nbsp;of an&amp;nbsp;instructor&amp;nbsp;hosting live lectures and the ability to meet with the instructor as needed during completion of the course.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;While completing the instructor-assisted curriculum, students are able to continue performing their day-to-day work duties. This eases the burden on students and employers alike, who often can&amp;#39;t afford to&amp;nbsp;put off&amp;nbsp;their current responsibilities for extended and demanding training sessions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="core_roles_and_training"&gt;Core Roles and Training&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;At Appian, we think a successful team is a combination of a few select roles that each play an important&amp;nbsp;part in project outcomes. When our education services team talks to customers and partners who are just beginning their Appian journey, one of the first things we want them to understand is the who. In other words, before you even begin to select the right training for your Appian team, you need to know who is supposed to be on the team to begin with. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Leaders&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian leaders, including Appian stakeholders and decision makers, benefit most from the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/appian-overview"&gt;Appian Overview course&lt;/a&gt;. It&amp;rsquo;s a lightweight curriculum that covers the basics and introduces students to Appian terminology and capabilities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Planners&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian planners, such as business analysts and project managers, should complete the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/appian-foundations"&gt;Appian Foundations&lt;/a&gt; course. This training curriculum covers our methodology and teaches students how to properly gather and define requirements. As part of that objective, each student will learn the main objects and components of Appian and how they are used to solve business problems.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Builders&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Builders are the core of your team, so they should complete our most comprehensive course, the &lt;a href="/learn/courses#learn-builder"&gt;Appian Developer training&lt;/a&gt;. More specific training paths for developers are outlined under Developer Courses below.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Administrators&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Administrators benefit from two different courses. The Application Owner, who is responsible for the health and maintenance of existing applications, benefits most from the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/application-administrator"&gt;Application Administrator course&lt;/a&gt;. Going a step beyond that, System administrators benefit from the &lt;a href="/learn/courses#learn-admin"&gt;Appian Administrator course&lt;/a&gt;. In this course, students learn how to manage Appian instances and servers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Learn more about these roles and responsibilities in&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="/success/w/article/2987/low-code-team-essentials"&gt;Low-code Team Essentials&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="developer_courses"&gt;Developer Courses&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;The primary role of a &lt;a href="/success/w/article/2982/build-your-low-code-development-team"&gt;low-code developer&lt;/a&gt; is executing the project backlog and building an application. As a developer gains more experience, they may choose to become either a senior / lead developer or put their skills into becoming a test manager. Whatever the path, here are some esssential courses to consider when training developers. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Associate Developers&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian Associate Developers start with the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/developer"&gt;Appian Developer course&lt;/a&gt;. This teaches them how to build each low-code Appian object, build user interfaces, and construct automation workflows based on application requirements.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;After that, we suggest they also participate in the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/applied-development"&gt;Appian Applied Development training&lt;/a&gt;, which builds on everything a student learns in the Developer curriculum by simulating an actual project with Appian. Students learn how to put our methodology into practice by planning and executing simple application architecture patterns according to the software development life cycle (SDLC).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Senior Developers&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;The goal for an Appian Senior Developer is to implement best practices of performance, scalability, usability, and maintainability. Since working developers are quite busy, we broke down the major interest areas into smaller individual courses. This allows Appian practitioners to get training only on the topic they need, when they need it. Completing each course is optional, but all of the topics covered in the Senior Developer series appear on the Senior Developer Certification exam.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul style="font-size:115%;"&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/advanced-ux-design"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Advanced UX Design&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt; teaches students how to optimize interfaces and better address the needs of users through improved research, planning, and testing of user interfaces.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/applied-ui"&gt;Applied UI&lt;/a&gt; builds on UX Design knowledge from the Advanced UX training to walk students through constructing elegant, efficient, and complex interfaces using Appian best practices.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/delivery-methodology"&gt;Appian Delivery Methodology&lt;/a&gt; builds on the software development life cycle students learned at the Associate level, and dives deeper into release strategies, backlog refinement, testing, education, support, and more.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-expressions"&gt;Advanced Expressions&lt;/a&gt; is an excellent course for students who come to Appian without deep programming backgrounds and teaches low-code best practices for performance and reusability.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-integrations"&gt;Advanced Integrations&lt;/a&gt; teaches students to better utilize APIs across applications, implement authentication protocols, and troubleshoot performance issues with integrations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-process-modeling"&gt;Appian Advanced Process Modeling&lt;/a&gt; provides several examples of common workflow patterns, and teaches students how to scale flexible processes for efficiency and high frequency.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-data-design"&gt;Advanced Data Design&lt;/a&gt; provides a deep dive into how Appian interacts with relational databases. This training curriculum helps students distinguish between different data structures, optimize queries, understand load testing, and best utilize Appian Data Sync capabilities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/appian-qa"&gt;Quality Testing&lt;/a&gt; teaches students how to implement the Appian proven quality assurance methodology into their applications. Students learn how to &amp;ldquo;bake in&amp;rdquo; testing criteria and tools at every step of the development process.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/appian-automation"&gt;Appian Automation&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="/training/courses/p/appian-applied-rpa"&gt;Applied RPA&lt;/a&gt; deepen developer skills by teaching implementation of Appian Robotic Process Automation, Intelligent Document Processing, and how to recognize the right use for the tools.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Lead Developers&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian Lead Developers primarily benefit from experience gained in the field. In fact, everything a Lead Developer needs to know has already been taught at the Senior Developer level&amp;mdash;the missing piece is simply practice. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="certification"&gt;Certification&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;While getting the right training is an&amp;nbsp;essential&amp;nbsp;first step, we also believe that it&amp;rsquo;s important to officially validate the knowledge and experience gained from training. To that end, we offer the &lt;a href="/learn/certifications"&gt;Appian Certification Program&lt;/a&gt;. We follow industry standards for development and security to ensure our certifications are reliable and trustworthy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;We brought in Appian experts from around the world under the tutelage of certification experts to help build the foundations of the program. A team of expert practitioners defined the expectations and skills to be measured for developers and analysts and then set about creating exams that validate those skills and expectations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Analyst Certification&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Non-developer team members, such as business analysts, project managers, product owners and UX designers, can benefit from the &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/certified-analyst"&gt;The Appian Certified Analyst exam&lt;/a&gt;. This certification will validate knowledge and training centered around planning successful projects.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Developer Certification&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Your developers should start down the developer certification pathway, which includes &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/associate-developer"&gt;Associate Developer&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/senior-developer"&gt;Senior Developer&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/lead-developer"&gt;Lead Developer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="downloadable_resources"&gt;Downloadable Resources&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul style="font-size:115%;"&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-00-46/Validating-Appian-Developer-Certifications-FAQs.pdf"&gt;Validating Appian Developer Certifications: FAQs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Tags: Training, People&lt;/div&gt;
</description></item><item><title>Train Your Appian Team</title><link>https://community.appian.com/success/w/guide/2969/train-your-appian-team/revision/9</link><pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2023 17:19:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:f03278a6-4969-4877-b2dc-c3296c0046ca</guid><dc:creator>Devon Lee</dc:creator><comments>https://community.appian.com/success/w/guide/2969/train-your-appian-team#comments</comments><description>Revision 9 posted to Guide by Devon Lee on 8/31/2023 5:19:47 PM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="margin:8px 16% 8px 8%;"&gt;
&lt;h2 id="skills_covered"&gt;Skills Covered&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian training helps you take control of your projects and feel confident in your team&amp;rsquo;s ability to manage your Appian applications.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Skills Checklist:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul style="font-size:115%;"&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Identify the four basic team roles&amp;nbsp;that make up&amp;nbsp;an Appian team.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Recall appropriate training path for each basic team role.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Explain the three available Appian educational experiences.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Match each basic team&amp;nbsp;role to an associated certification pathway.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h2 id="appian_learning_experiences"&gt;Appian Learning Experiences&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;At Appian, our goal is to provide you with the resources you need to become self-sufficient. To aid in that effort, we offer a variety of learning experiences suited to your needs and student learning preferences.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;On-demand online training&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Most Appian training offerings are available for free and on demand through our extensive &lt;a href="https://academy.appian.com/"&gt;Academy Online&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;library. This should be your first stop for Appian training at any level.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Online trainings run as fast or as slow as a student needs. As part of our learning methodology, we design each course around active learning. This means students are encouraged to&amp;nbsp;perform the exercises given for each module.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Instructor-led training&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Talented Appian instructors take students on a guided learning experience. Students work at a set group pace alongside their classmates. The topics and objectives for instructor-led training are the same as the online courses, but the instructor is able to mentor and guide each student along the way. In addition, instructor-led training has the added benefit of collaboration and accountability among classmates, which ensures vital concepts are practiced and retained.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table style="border-color:#c3ddf5;" border="2"&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="emoticon" data-url="https://community.appian.com/cfs-file/__key/system/emoji/1f4a1.svg" title="Bulb"&gt;&amp;#x1f4a1;&lt;/span&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Some instructor-led courses, such as Applied Development, do not have online equivalents and can only be&amp;nbsp;taken in the classroom format.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Instructor-assisted training&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;We believe in flexibility and realize that many students benefit from a hybrid training format. For this type of student, we offer instructor-assisted training.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Under this learning experience, students primarily work on their own through the online curriculum. However, students have the added benefit&amp;nbsp;of an&amp;nbsp;instructor&amp;nbsp;hosting live lectures and the ability to meet with the instructor as needed during completion of the course.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;While completing the instructor-assisted curriculum, students are able to continue performing their day-to-day work duties. This eases the burden on students and employers alike, who often can&amp;#39;t afford to&amp;nbsp;put off&amp;nbsp;their current responsibilities for extended and demanding training sessions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="core_roles_and_training"&gt;Core Roles and Training&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;At Appian, we think a successful team is a combination of a few select roles that each play an important&amp;nbsp;part in project outcomes. When our education services team talks to customers and partners who are just beginning their Appian journey, one of the first things we want them to understand is the who. In other words, before you even begin to select the right training for your Appian team, you need to know who is supposed to be on the team to begin with. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Leaders&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian leaders, including Appian stakeholders and decision makers, benefit most from the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/appian-overview"&gt;Appian Overview course&lt;/a&gt;. It&amp;rsquo;s a lightweight curriculum that covers the basics and introduces students to Appian terminology and capabilities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Planners&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian planners, such as business analysts and project managers, should complete the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/appian-foundations"&gt;Appian Foundations&lt;/a&gt; course. This training curriculum covers our methodology and teaches students how to properly gather and define requirements. As part of that objective, each student will learn the main objects and components of Appian and how they are used to solve business problems.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Builders&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Builders are the core of your team, so they should complete our most comprehensive course, the &lt;a href="/learn/courses#learn-builder"&gt;Appian Developer training&lt;/a&gt;. More specific training paths for developers are outlined under Developer Courses below.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Administrators&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Administrators benefit from two different courses. The Application Owner, who is responsible for the health and maintenance of existing applications, benefits most from the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/application-administrator"&gt;Application Administrator course&lt;/a&gt;. Going a step beyond that, System administrators benefit from the &lt;a href="/learn/courses#learn-admin"&gt;Appian Administrator course&lt;/a&gt;. In this course, students learn how to manage Appian instances and servers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Learn more about these roles and responsibilities in&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="/success/w/article/2987/low-code-team-essentials"&gt;Low-code Team Essentials&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="developer_courses"&gt;Developer Courses&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;The primary role of a &lt;a href="/success/w/article/2982/build-your-low-code-development-team"&gt;low-code developer&lt;/a&gt; is executing the project backlog and building an application. As a developer gains more experience, they may choose to become either a senior / lead developer or put their skills into becoming a test manager. Whatever the path, here are some esssential courses to consider when training developers. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Associate Developers&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian Associate Developers start with the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/developer"&gt;Appian Developer course&lt;/a&gt;. This teaches them how to build each low-code Appian object, build user interfaces, and construct automation workflows based on application requirements.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;After that, we suggest they also participate in the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/applied-development"&gt;Appian Applied Development training&lt;/a&gt;, which builds on everything a student learns in the Developer curriculum by simulating an actual project with Appian. Students learn how to put our methodology into practice by planning and executing simple application architecture patterns according to the software development life cycle (SDLC).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Senior Developers&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;The goal for an Appian Senior Developer is to implement best practices of performance, scalability, usability, and maintainability. Since working developers are quite busy, we broke down the major interest areas into smaller individual courses. This allows Appian practitioners to get training only on the topic they need, when they need it. Completing each course is optional, but all of the topics covered in the Senior Developer series appear on the Senior Developer Certification exam.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul style="font-size:115%;"&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/advanced-ux-design"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Advanced UX Design&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt; teaches students how to optimize interfaces and better address the needs of users through improved research, planning, and testing of user interfaces.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/applied-ui"&gt;Applied UI&lt;/a&gt; builds on UX Design knowledge from the Advanced UX training to walk students through constructing elegant, efficient, and complex interfaces using Appian best practices.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/delivery-methodology"&gt;Appian Delivery Methodology&lt;/a&gt; builds on the software development life cycle students learned at the Associate level, and dives deeper into release strategies, backlog refinement, testing, education, support, and more.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-expressions"&gt;Advanced Expressions&lt;/a&gt; is an excellent course for students who come to Appian without deep programming backgrounds and teaches low-code best practices for performance and reusability.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-integrations"&gt;Advanced Integrations&lt;/a&gt; teaches students to better utilize APIs across applications, implement authentication protocols, and troubleshoot performance issues with integrations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-process-modeling"&gt;Appian Advanced Process Modeling&lt;/a&gt; provides several examples of common workflow patterns, and teaches students how to scale flexible processes for efficiency and high frequency.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-data-design"&gt;Advanced Data Design&lt;/a&gt; provides a deep dive into how Appian interacts with relational databases. This training curriculum helps students distinguish between different data structures, optimize queries, understand load testing, and best utilize Appian Data Sync capabilities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/appian-qa"&gt;Quality Testing&lt;/a&gt; teaches students how to implement the Appian proven quality assurance methodology into their applications. Students learn how to &amp;ldquo;bake in&amp;rdquo; testing criteria and tools at every step of the development process.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/appian-automation"&gt;Appian Automation&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="/training/courses/p/appian-applied-rpa"&gt;Applied RPA&lt;/a&gt; deepen developer skills by teaching implementation of Appian Robotic Process Automation, Intelligent Document Processing, and how to recognize the right use for the tools.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Lead Developers&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian Lead Developers primarily benefit from experience gained in the field. In fact, everything a Lead Developer needs to know has already been taught at the Senior Developer level&amp;mdash;the missing piece is simply practice. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="certification"&gt;Certification&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;While getting the right training is an&amp;nbsp;essential&amp;nbsp;first step, we also believe that it&amp;rsquo;s important to officially validate the knowledge and experience gained from training. To that end, we offer the &lt;a href="/learn/certifications"&gt;Appian Certification Program&lt;/a&gt;. We follow industry standards for development and security to ensure our certifications are reliable and trustworthy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;We brought in Appian experts from around the world under the tutelage of certification experts to help build the foundations of the program. A team of expert practitioners defined the expectations and skills to be measured for developers and analysts and then set about creating exams that validate those skills and expectations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Analyst Certification&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Non-developer team members, such as business analysts, project managers, product owners and UX designers, can benefit from the &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/certified-analyst"&gt;The Appian Certified Analyst exam&lt;/a&gt;. This certification will validate knowledge and training centered around planning successful projects.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Developer Certification&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Your developers should start down the developer certification pathway, which includes &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/associate-developer"&gt;Associate Developer&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/senior-developer"&gt;Senior Developer&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/lead-developer"&gt;Lead Developer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="downloadable_resources"&gt;Downloadable Resources&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul style="font-size:115%;"&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-00-46/Validating-Appian-Developer-Certifications-FAQs.pdf"&gt;Validating Appian Developer Certifications: FAQs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Tags: Display, Training, People&lt;/div&gt;
</description></item><item><title>Train Your Appian Team</title><link>https://community.appian.com/success/w/guide/2969/train-your-appian-team/revision/8</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 18:43:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:f03278a6-4969-4877-b2dc-c3296c0046ca</guid><dc:creator>joel.larin</dc:creator><comments>https://community.appian.com/success/w/guide/2969/train-your-appian-team#comments</comments><description>Revision 8 posted to Guide by joel.larin on 5/15/2023 6:43:11 PM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="margin:8px 16% 8px 8%;"&gt;
&lt;h2 id="skills_covered"&gt;Skills Covered&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian training helps you take control of your projects and feel confident in your team&amp;rsquo;s ability to manage your Appian applications.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Skills Checklist:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul style="font-size:115%;"&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Identify the four basic team roles&amp;nbsp;that make up&amp;nbsp;an Appian team.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Recall appropriate training path for each basic team role.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Explain the three available Appian educational experiences.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Match each basic team&amp;nbsp;role to an associated certification pathway.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h2 id="appian_learning_experiences"&gt;Appian Learning Experiences&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;At Appian, our goal is to provide you with the resources you need to become self-sufficient. To aid in that effort, we offer a variety of learning experiences suited to your needs and student learning preferences.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;On-demand online training&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Most Appian training offerings are available for free and on demand through our extensive &lt;a href="https://academy.appian.com/"&gt;Academy Online&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;library. This should be your first stop for Appian training at any level.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Online trainings run as fast or as slow as a student needs. As part of our learning methodology, we design each course around active learning. This means students are encouraged to&amp;nbsp;perform the exercises given for each module.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Instructor-led training&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Talented Appian instructors take students on a guided learning experience. Students work at a set group pace alongside their classmates. The topics and objectives for instructor-led training are the same as the online courses, but the instructor is able to mentor and guide each student along the way. In addition, instructor-led training has the added benefit of collaboration and accountability among classmates, which ensures vital concepts are practiced and retained.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table style="border-color:#c3ddf5;" border="2"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="emoticon" data-url="https://community.appian.com/cfs-file/__key/system/emoji/1f4a1.svg" title="Bulb"&gt;&amp;#x1f4a1;&lt;/span&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Some instructor-led courses, such as Applied Development, do not have online equivalents and can only be&amp;nbsp;taken in the classroom format.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Instructor-assisted training&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;We believe in flexibility and realize that many students benefit from a hybrid training format. For this type of student, we offer instructor-assisted training.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Under this learning experience, students primarily work on their own through the online curriculum. However, students have the added benefit&amp;nbsp;of an&amp;nbsp;instructor&amp;nbsp;hosting live lectures and the ability to meet with the instructor as needed during completion of the course.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;While completing the instructor-assisted curriculum, students are able to continue performing their day-to-day work duties. This eases the burden on students and employers alike, who often can&amp;#39;t afford to&amp;nbsp;put off&amp;nbsp;their current responsibilities for extended and demanding training sessions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="core_roles_and_training"&gt;Core Roles and Training&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;At Appian, we think a successful team is a combination of a few select roles that each play an important&amp;nbsp;part in project outcomes. When our education services team talks to customers and partners who are just beginning their Appian journey, one of the first things we want them to understand is the who. In other words, before you even begin to select the right training for your Appian team, you need to know who is supposed to be on the team to begin with. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Leaders&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian leaders, including Appian stakeholders and decision makers, benefit most from the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/appian-overview"&gt;Appian Overview course&lt;/a&gt;. It&amp;rsquo;s a lightweight curriculum that covers the basics and introduces students to Appian terminology and capabilities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Planners&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian planners, such as business analysts and project managers, should complete the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/appian-foundations"&gt;Appian Foundations&lt;/a&gt; course. This training curriculum covers our methodology and teaches students how to properly gather and define requirements. As part of that objective, each student will learn the main objects and components of Appian and how they are used to solve business problems.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Builders&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Builders are the core of your team, so they should complete our most comprehensive course, the &lt;a href="/learn/courses#learn-builder"&gt;Appian Developer training&lt;/a&gt;. More specific training paths for developers are outlined under Developer Courses below.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Administrators&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Administrators benefit from two different courses. The Application Owner, who is responsible for the health and maintenance of existing applications, benefits most from the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/application-administrator"&gt;Application Administrator course&lt;/a&gt;. Going a step beyond that, System administrators benefit from the &lt;a href="/learn/courses#learn-admin"&gt;Appian Administrator course&lt;/a&gt;. In this course, students learn how to manage Appian instances and servers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Learn more about these roles and responsibilities in&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="/success/w/article/2987/low-code-team-essentials"&gt;Low-code Team Essentials&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="developer_courses"&gt;Developer Courses&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;The primary role of a &lt;a href="/success/w/article/2982/build-your-low-code-development-team"&gt;low-code developer&lt;/a&gt; is executing the project backlog and building an application. As a developer gains more experience, they may choose to become either a senior / lead developer or put their skills into becoming a test manager. Whatever the path, here are some esssential courses to consider when training developers. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Associate Developers&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian Associate Developers start with the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/developer"&gt;Appian Developer course&lt;/a&gt;. This teaches them how to build each low-code Appian object, build user interfaces, and construct automation workflows based on application requirements.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;After that, we suggest they also participate in the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/applied-development"&gt;Appian Applied Development training&lt;/a&gt;, which builds on everything a student learns in the Developer curriculum by simulating an actual project with Appian. Students learn how to put our methodology into practice by planning and executing simple application architecture patterns according to the software development life cycle (SDLC).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Senior Developers&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;The goal for an Appian Senior Developer is to implement best practices of performance, scalability, usability, and maintainability. Since working developers are quite busy, we broke down the major interest areas into smaller individual courses. This allows Appian practitioners to get training only on the topic they need, when they need it. Completing each course is optional, but all of the topics covered in the Senior Developer series appear on the Senior Developer Certification exam.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul style="font-size:115%;"&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/advanced-ux-design"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Advanced UX Design&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt; teaches students how to optimize interfaces and better address the needs of users through improved research, planning, and testing of user interfaces.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/applied-ui"&gt;Applied UI&lt;/a&gt; builds on UX Design knowledge from the Advanced UX training to walk students through constructing elegant, efficient, and complex interfaces using Appian best practices.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/delivery-methodology"&gt;Appian Delivery Methodology&lt;/a&gt; builds on the software development life cycle students learned at the Associate level, and dives deeper into release strategies, backlog refinement, testing, education, support, and more.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-expressions"&gt;Advanced Expressions&lt;/a&gt; is an excellent course for students who come to Appian without deep programming backgrounds and teaches low-code best practices for performance and reusability.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-integrations"&gt;Advanced Integrations&lt;/a&gt; teaches students to better utilize APIs across applications, implement authentication protocols, and troubleshoot performance issues with integrations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-process-modeling"&gt;Appian Advanced Process Modeling&lt;/a&gt; provides several examples of common workflow patterns, and teaches students how to scale flexible processes for efficiency and high frequency.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-data-design"&gt;Advanced Data Design&lt;/a&gt; provides a deep dive into how Appian interacts with relational databases. This training curriculum helps students distinguish between different data structures, optimize queries, understand load testing, and best utilize Appian Data Sync capabilities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/appian-qa"&gt;Quality Testing&lt;/a&gt; teaches students how to implement the Appian proven quality assurance methodology into their applications. Students learn how to &amp;ldquo;bake in&amp;rdquo; testing criteria and tools at every step of the development process.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/appian-automation"&gt;Appian Automation&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="/training/courses/p/appian-applied-rpa"&gt;Applied RPA&lt;/a&gt; deepen developer skills by teaching implementation of Appian Robotic Process Automation, Intelligent Document Processing, and how to recognize the right use for the tools.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Lead Developers&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian Lead Developers primarily benefit from experience gained in the field. In fact, everything a Lead Developer needs to know has already been taught at the Senior Developer level&amp;mdash;the missing piece is simply practice. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="certification"&gt;Certification&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;While getting the right training is an&amp;nbsp;essential&amp;nbsp;first step, we also believe that it&amp;rsquo;s important to officially validate the knowledge and experience gained from training. To that end, we offer the &lt;a href="/learn/certifications"&gt;Appian Certification Program&lt;/a&gt;. We follow industry standards for development and security to ensure our certifications are reliable and trustworthy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;We brought in Appian experts from around the world under the tutelage of certification experts to help build the foundations of the program. A team of expert practitioners defined the expectations and skills to be measured for developers and analysts and then set about creating exams that validate those skills and expectations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Analyst Certification&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Non-developer team members, such as business analysts, project managers, product owners and UX designers, can benefit from the &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/certified-analyst"&gt;The Appian Certified Analyst exam&lt;/a&gt;. This certification will validate knowledge and training centered around planning successful projects.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Developer Certification&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Your developers should start down the developer certification pathway, which includes &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/associate-developer"&gt;Associate Developer&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/senior-developer"&gt;Senior Developer&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/lead-developer"&gt;Lead Developer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="downloadable_resources"&gt;Downloadable Resources&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul style="font-size:115%;"&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-00-46/Validating-Appian-Developer-Certifications-FAQs.pdf"&gt;Validating Appian Developer Certifications: FAQs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Tags: Training, People&lt;/div&gt;
</description></item><item><title>Train Your Appian Team</title><link>https://community.appian.com/success/w/guide/2969/train-your-appian-team/revision/7</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 18:42:28 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:f03278a6-4969-4877-b2dc-c3296c0046ca</guid><dc:creator>joel.larin</dc:creator><comments>https://community.appian.com/success/w/guide/2969/train-your-appian-team#comments</comments><description>Revision 7 posted to Guide by joel.larin on 5/15/2023 6:42:28 PM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="margin:8px 16% 8px 8%;"&gt;
&lt;h2 id="skills_covered"&gt;Skills Covered&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian training helps you take control of your projects and feel confident in your team&amp;rsquo;s ability to manage your Appian applications.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Skills Checklist:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul style="font-size:115%;"&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Identify the four basic team roles&amp;nbsp;that make up&amp;nbsp;an Appian team.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Recall appropriate training path for each basic team role.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Explain the three available Appian educational experiences.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Match each basic team&amp;nbsp;role to an associated certification pathway.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h2 id="appian_learning_experiences"&gt;Appian Learning Experiences&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;At Appian, our goal is to provide you with the resources you need to become self-sufficient. To aid in that effort, we offer a variety of learning experiences suited to your needs and student learning preferences.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;On-demand online training&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Most Appian training offerings are available for free and on demand through our extensive &lt;a href="https://academy.appian.com/"&gt;Academy Online&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;library. This should be your first stop for Appian training at any level.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Online trainings run as fast or as slow as a student needs. As part of our learning methodology, we design each course around active learning. This means students are encouraged to&amp;nbsp;perform the exercises given for each module.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Instructor-led training&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Talented Appian instructors take students on a guided learning experience. Students work at a set group pace alongside their classmates. The topics and objectives for instructor-led training are the same as the online courses, but the instructor is able to mentor and guide each student along the way. In addition, instructor-led training has the added benefit of collaboration and accountability among classmates, which ensures vital concepts are practiced and retained.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table style="border-color:#c3ddf5;" border="2"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="emoticon" data-url="https://community.appian.com/cfs-file/__key/system/emoji/1f4a1.svg" title="Bulb"&gt;&amp;#x1f4a1;&lt;/span&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Some instructor-led courses, such as Applied Development, do not have online equivalents and can only be&amp;nbsp;taken in the classroom format.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Instructor-assisted training&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;We believe in flexibility and realize that many students benefit from a hybrid training format. For this type of student, we offer instructor-assisted training.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Under this learning experience, students primarily work on their own through the online curriculum. However, students have the added benefit&amp;nbsp;of an&amp;nbsp;instructor&amp;nbsp;hosting live lectures and the ability to meet with the instructor as needed during completion of the course.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;While completing the instructor-assisted curriculum, students are able to continue performing their day-to-day work duties. This eases the burden on students and employers alike, who often can&amp;#39;t afford to&amp;nbsp;put off&amp;nbsp;their current responsibilities for extended and demanding training sessions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="core_roles_and_training"&gt;Core Roles and Training&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;At Appian, we think a successful team is a combination of a few select roles that each play an important&amp;nbsp;part in project outcomes. When our education services team talks to customers and partners who are just beginning their Appian journey, one of the first things we want them to understand is the who. In other words, before you even begin to select the right training for your Appian team, you need to know who is supposed to be on the team to begin with. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Leaders&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian leaders, including Appian stakeholders and decision makers, benefit most from the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/appian-overview"&gt;Appian Overview course&lt;/a&gt;. It&amp;rsquo;s a lightweight curriculum that covers the basics and introduces students to Appian terminology and capabilities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Planners&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian planners, such as business analysts and project managers, should complete the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/appian-foundations"&gt;Appian Foundations&lt;/a&gt; course. This training curriculum covers our methodology and teaches students how to properly gather and define requirements. As part of that objective, each student will learn the main objects and components of Appian and how they are used to solve business problems.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Builders&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Builders are the core of your team, so they should complete our most comprehensive course, the &lt;a href="/learn/courses#learn-builder"&gt;Appian Developer training&lt;/a&gt;. More specific training paths for developers are outlined under Developer Courses below.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Administrators&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Administrators benefit from two different courses. The Application Owner, who is responsible for the health and maintenance of existing applications, benefits most from the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/application-administrator"&gt;Application Administrator course&lt;/a&gt;. Going a step beyond that, System administrators benefit from the &lt;a href="/learn/courses#learn-admin"&gt;Appian Administrator course&lt;/a&gt;. In this course, students learn how to manage Appian instances and servers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Learn more about these roles and responsibilities in&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="/success/w/article/2987/low-code-team-essentials"&gt;Low-code Team Essentials&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="developer_courses"&gt;Developer Courses&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;The primary role of a &lt;a href="/success/w/article/2982/build-your-low-code-development-team"&gt;low-code developer&lt;/a&gt; is executing the project backlog and building an application. As a developer gains more experience, they may choose to become either a senior / lead developer or put their skills into becoming a test manager. Whatever the path, here are some esssential courses to consider when training developers. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Associate Developers&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian Associate Developers start with the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/developer"&gt;Appian Developer course&lt;/a&gt;. This teaches them how to build each low-code Appian object, build user interfaces, and construct automation workflows based on application requirements.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;After that, we suggest they also participate in the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/applied-development"&gt;Appian Applied Development training&lt;/a&gt;, which builds on everything a student learns in the Developer curriculum by simulating an actual project with Appian. Students learn how to put our methodology into practice by planning and executing simple application architecture patterns according to the software development life cycle (SDLC).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Senior Developers&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;The goal for an Appian Senior Developer is to implement best practices of performance, scalability, usability, and maintainability. Since working developers are quite busy, we broke down the major interest areas into smaller individual courses. This allows Appian practitioners to get training only on the topic they need, when they need it. Completing each course is optional, but all of the topics covered in the Senior Developer series appear on the Senior Developer Certification exam.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul style="font-size:115%;"&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/advanced-ux-design"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Advanced UX Design&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt; teaches students how to optimize interfaces and better address the needs of users through improved research, planning, and testing of user interfaces.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/applied-ui"&gt;Applied UI&lt;/a&gt; builds on UX Design knowledge from the Advanced UX training to walk students through constructing elegant, efficient, and complex interfaces using Appian best practices.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/delivery-methodology"&gt;Appian Delivery Methodology&lt;/a&gt; builds on the software development life cycle students learned at the Associate level, and dives deeper into release strategies, backlog refinement, testing, education, support, and more.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-expressions"&gt;Advanced Expressions&lt;/a&gt; is an excellent course for students who come to Appian without deep programming backgrounds and teaches low-code best practices for performance and reusability.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-integrations"&gt;Advanced Integrations&lt;/a&gt; teaches students to better utilize APIs across applications, implement authentication protocols, and troubleshoot performance issues with integrations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-process-modeling"&gt;Appian Advanced Process Modeling&lt;/a&gt; provides several examples of common workflow patterns, and teaches students how to scale flexible processes for efficiency and high frequency.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-data-design"&gt;Advanced Data Design&lt;/a&gt; provides a deep dive into how Appian interacts with relational databases. This training curriculum helps students distinguish between different data structures, optimize queries, understand load testing, and best utilize Appian Data Sync capabilities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/appian-qa"&gt;Quality Testing&lt;/a&gt; teaches students how to implement the Appian proven quality assurance methodology into their applications. Students learn how to &amp;ldquo;bake in&amp;rdquo; testing criteria and tools at every step of the development process.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/appian-automation"&gt;Appian Automation&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="/training/courses/p/appian-applied-rpa"&gt;Applied RPA&lt;/a&gt; deepen developer skills by teaching implementation of Appian Robotic Process Automation, Intelligent Document Processing, and how to recognize the right use for the tools.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Lead Developers&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian Lead Developers primarily benefit from experience gained in the field. In fact, everything a Lead Developer needs to know has already been taught at the Senior Developer level&amp;mdash;the missing piece is simply practice. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="certification"&gt;Certification&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;While getting the right training is an&amp;nbsp;essential&amp;nbsp;first step, we also believe that it&amp;rsquo;s important to officially validate the knowledge and experience gained from training. To that end, we offer the &lt;a href="/learn/certifications"&gt;Appian Certification Program&lt;/a&gt;. We follow industry standards for development and security to ensure our certifications are reliable and trustworthy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;We brought in Appian experts from around the world under the tutelage of certification experts to help build the foundations of the program. A team of expert practitioners defined the expectations and skills to be measured for developers and analysts and then set about creating exams that validate those skills and expectations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Analyst Certification&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Non-developer team members, such as business analysts, project managers, product owners and UX designers, can benefit from the &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/certified-analyst"&gt;The Appian Certified Analyst exam&lt;/a&gt;. This certification will validate knowledge and training centered around planning successful projects.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Developer Certification&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Your developers should start down the developer certification pathway, which includes &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/associate-developer"&gt;Associate Developer&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/senior-developer"&gt;Senior Developer&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/lead-developer"&gt;Lead Developer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="downloadable_resources"&gt;Downloadable Resources&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul style="font-size:115%;"&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://community.appian.com/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-00-46/Validating-Appian-Developer-Certifications-FAQs.pdf"&gt;community.appian.com/.../Validating-Appian-Developer-Certifications-FAQs.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
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&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Tags: Training, People&lt;/div&gt;
</description></item><item><title>Train Your Appian Team</title><link>https://community.appian.com/success/w/guide/2969/train-your-appian-team/revision/6</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 18:40:49 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:f03278a6-4969-4877-b2dc-c3296c0046ca</guid><dc:creator>joel.larin</dc:creator><comments>https://community.appian.com/success/w/guide/2969/train-your-appian-team#comments</comments><description>Revision 6 posted to Guide by joel.larin on 5/15/2023 6:40:49 PM&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;h2 id="skills_covered"&gt;Skills Covered&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian training helps you take control of your projects and feel confident in your team&amp;rsquo;s ability to manage your Appian applications.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Skills Checklist:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul style="font-size:115%;"&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Identify the four basic team roles&amp;nbsp;that make up&amp;nbsp;an Appian team.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Recall appropriate training path for each basic team role.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Explain the three available Appian educational experiences.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Match each basic team&amp;nbsp;role to an associated certification pathway.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h2 id="appian_learning_experiences"&gt;Appian Learning Experiences&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;At Appian, our goal is to provide you with the resources you need to become self-sufficient. To aid in that effort, we offer a variety of learning experiences suited to your needs and student learning preferences.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;On-demand online training&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Most Appian training offerings are available for free and on demand through our extensive &lt;a href="https://academy.appian.com/"&gt;Academy Online&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;library. This should be your first stop for Appian training at any level.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Online trainings run as fast or as slow as a student needs. As part of our learning methodology, we design each course around active learning. This means students are encouraged to&amp;nbsp;perform the exercises given for each module.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Instructor-led training&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Talented Appian instructors take students on a guided learning experience. Students work at a set group pace alongside their classmates. The topics and objectives for instructor-led training are the same as the online courses, but the instructor is able to mentor and guide each student along the way. In addition, instructor-led training has the added benefit of collaboration and accountability among classmates, which ensures vital concepts are practiced and retained.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="emoticon" data-url="https://community.appian.com/cfs-file/__key/system/emoji/1f4a1.svg" title="Bulb"&gt;&amp;#x1f4a1;&lt;/span&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Some instructor-led courses, such as Applied Development, do not have online equivalents and can only be&amp;nbsp;taken in the classroom format.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h3&gt;Instructor-assisted training&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;We believe in flexibility and realize that many students benefit from a hybrid training format. For this type of student, we offer instructor-assisted training.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Under this learning experience, students primarily work on their own through the online curriculum. However, students have the added benefit&amp;nbsp;of an&amp;nbsp;instructor&amp;nbsp;hosting live lectures and the ability to meet with the instructor as needed during completion of the course.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;While completing the instructor-assisted curriculum, students are able to continue performing their day-to-day work duties. This eases the burden on students and employers alike, who often can&amp;#39;t afford to&amp;nbsp;put off&amp;nbsp;their current responsibilities for extended and demanding training sessions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="core_roles_and_training"&gt;Core Roles and Training&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;At Appian, we think a successful team is a combination of a few select roles that each play an important&amp;nbsp;part in project outcomes. When our education services team talks to customers and partners who are just beginning their Appian journey, one of the first things we want them to understand is the who. In other words, before you even begin to select the right training for your Appian team, you need to know who is supposed to be on the team to begin with. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Leaders&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian leaders, including Appian stakeholders and decision makers, benefit most from the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/appian-overview"&gt;Appian Overview course&lt;/a&gt;. It&amp;rsquo;s a lightweight curriculum that covers the basics and introduces students to Appian terminology and capabilities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Planners&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian planners, such as business analysts and project managers, should complete the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/appian-foundations"&gt;Appian Foundations&lt;/a&gt; course. This training curriculum covers our methodology and teaches students how to properly gather and define requirements. As part of that objective, each student will learn the main objects and components of Appian and how they are used to solve business problems.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Builders&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Builders are the core of your team, so they should complete our most comprehensive course, the &lt;a href="/learn/courses#learn-builder"&gt;Appian Developer training&lt;/a&gt;. More specific training paths for developers are outlined under Developer Courses below.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Administrators&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Administrators benefit from two different courses. The Application Owner, who is responsible for the health and maintenance of existing applications, benefits most from the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/application-administrator"&gt;Application Administrator course&lt;/a&gt;. Going a step beyond that, System administrators benefit from the &lt;a href="/learn/courses#learn-admin"&gt;Appian Administrator course&lt;/a&gt;. In this course, students learn how to manage Appian instances and servers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Learn more about these roles and responsibilities in&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="/success/w/article/2987/low-code-team-essentials"&gt;Low-code Team Essentials&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="developer_courses"&gt;Developer Courses&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;The primary role of a &lt;a href="/success/w/article/2982/build-your-low-code-development-team"&gt;low-code developer&lt;/a&gt; is executing the project backlog and building an application. As a developer gains more experience, they may choose to become either a senior / lead developer or put their skills into becoming a test manager. Whatever the path, here are some esssential courses to consider when training developers. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Associate Developers&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian Associate Developers start with the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/developer"&gt;Appian Developer course&lt;/a&gt;. This teaches them how to build each low-code Appian object, build user interfaces, and construct automation workflows based on application requirements.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;After that, we suggest they also participate in the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/applied-development"&gt;Appian Applied Development training&lt;/a&gt;, which builds on everything a student learns in the Developer curriculum by simulating an actual project with Appian. Students learn how to put our methodology into practice by planning and executing simple application architecture patterns according to the software development life cycle (SDLC).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Senior Developers&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;The goal for an Appian Senior Developer is to implement best practices of performance, scalability, usability, and maintainability. Since working developers are quite busy, we broke down the major interest areas into smaller individual courses. This allows Appian practitioners to get training only on the topic they need, when they need it. Completing each course is optional, but all of the topics covered in the Senior Developer series appear on the Senior Developer Certification exam.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul style="font-size:115%;"&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/advanced-ux-design"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Advanced UX Design&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt; teaches students how to optimize interfaces and better address the needs of users through improved research, planning, and testing of user interfaces.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/applied-ui"&gt;Applied UI&lt;/a&gt; builds on UX Design knowledge from the Advanced UX training to walk students through constructing elegant, efficient, and complex interfaces using Appian best practices.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/delivery-methodology"&gt;Appian Delivery Methodology&lt;/a&gt; builds on the software development life cycle students learned at the Associate level, and dives deeper into release strategies, backlog refinement, testing, education, support, and more.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-expressions"&gt;Advanced Expressions&lt;/a&gt; is an excellent course for students who come to Appian without deep programming backgrounds and teaches low-code best practices for performance and reusability.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-integrations"&gt;Advanced Integrations&lt;/a&gt; teaches students to better utilize APIs across applications, implement authentication protocols, and troubleshoot performance issues with integrations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-process-modeling"&gt;Appian Advanced Process Modeling&lt;/a&gt; provides several examples of common workflow patterns, and teaches students how to scale flexible processes for efficiency and high frequency.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-data-design"&gt;Advanced Data Design&lt;/a&gt; provides a deep dive into how Appian interacts with relational databases. This training curriculum helps students distinguish between different data structures, optimize queries, understand load testing, and best utilize Appian Data Sync capabilities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/appian-qa"&gt;Quality Testing&lt;/a&gt; teaches students how to implement the Appian proven quality assurance methodology into their applications. Students learn how to &amp;ldquo;bake in&amp;rdquo; testing criteria and tools at every step of the development process.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/appian-automation"&gt;Appian Automation&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="/training/courses/p/appian-applied-rpa"&gt;Applied RPA&lt;/a&gt; deepen developer skills by teaching implementation of Appian Robotic Process Automation, Intelligent Document Processing, and how to recognize the right use for the tools.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Lead Developers&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian Lead Developers primarily benefit from experience gained in the field. In fact, everything a Lead Developer needs to know has already been taught at the Senior Developer level&amp;mdash;the missing piece is simply practice. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="certification"&gt;Certification&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;While getting the right training is an&amp;nbsp;essential&amp;nbsp;first step, we also believe that it&amp;rsquo;s important to officially validate the knowledge and experience gained from training. To that end, we offer the &lt;a href="/learn/certifications"&gt;Appian Certification Program&lt;/a&gt;. We follow industry standards for development and security to ensure our certifications are reliable and trustworthy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;We brought in Appian experts from around the world under the tutelage of certification experts to help build the foundations of the program. A team of expert practitioners defined the expectations and skills to be measured for developers and analysts and then set about creating exams that validate those skills and expectations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Analyst Certification&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Non-developer team members, such as business analysts, project managers, product owners and UX designers, can benefit from the &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/certified-analyst"&gt;The Appian Certified Analyst exam&lt;/a&gt;. This certification will validate knowledge and training centered around planning successful projects.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Developer Certification&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Your developers should start down the developer certification pathway, which includes &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/associate-developer"&gt;Associate Developer&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/senior-developer"&gt;Senior Developer&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/lead-developer"&gt;Lead Developer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="downloadable_resources"&gt;Downloadable Resources&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul style="font-size:115%;"&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-00-46/Roadmap-and-Release-Plan-Template.pptx?utm_source=RELEASEPLANLINK&amp;amp;utm_medium=Community&amp;amp;utm_campaign=APM"&gt;Validating Appian Developer Certifications: FAQs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Tags: Training, People&lt;/div&gt;
</description></item><item><title>Train Your Appian Team</title><link>https://community.appian.com/success/w/guide/2969/train-your-appian-team/revision/5</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2023 18:10:23 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:f03278a6-4969-4877-b2dc-c3296c0046ca</guid><dc:creator>Devon Lee</dc:creator><comments>https://community.appian.com/success/w/guide/2969/train-your-appian-team#comments</comments><description>Revision 5 posted to Guide by Devon Lee on 3/22/2023 6:10:23 PM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="margin:8px 16% 8px 8%;"&gt;
&lt;h2 id="skills_covered"&gt;Skills Covered&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian training helps you take control of your projects and feel confident in your team&amp;rsquo;s ability to manage your Appian applications.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Skills Checklist:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul style="font-size:115%;"&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Identify the four basic team roles&amp;nbsp;that make up&amp;nbsp;an Appian team.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Recall appropriate training path for each basic team role.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Explain the three available Appian educational experiences.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Match each basic team&amp;nbsp;role to an associated certification pathway.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h2 id="appian_learning_experiences"&gt;Appian Learning Experiences&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;At Appian, our goal is to provide you with the resources you need to become self-sufficient. To aid in that effort, we offer a variety of learning experiences suited to your needs and student learning preferences.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;On-demand online training&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Most Appian training offerings are available for free and on demand through our extensive &lt;a href="https://academy.appian.com/"&gt;Academy Online&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;library. This should be your first stop for Appian training at any level.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Online trainings run as fast or as slow as a student needs. As part of our learning methodology, we design each course around active learning. This means students are encouraged to&amp;nbsp;perform the exercises given for each module.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Instructor-led training&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Talented Appian instructors take students on a guided learning experience. Students work at a set group pace alongside their classmates. The topics and objectives for instructor-led training are the same as the online courses, but the instructor is able to mentor and guide each student along the way. In addition, instructor-led training has the added benefit of collaboration and accountability among classmates, which ensures vital concepts are practiced and retained.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table style="border-color:#c3ddf5;" border="2"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="emoticon" data-url="https://community.appian.com/cfs-file/__key/system/emoji/1f4a1.svg" title="Bulb"&gt;&amp;#x1f4a1;&lt;/span&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Some instructor-led courses, such as Applied Development, do not have online equivalents and can only be&amp;nbsp;taken in the classroom format.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Instructor-assisted training&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;We believe in flexibility and realize that many students benefit from a hybrid training format. For this type of student, we offer instructor-assisted training.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Under this learning experience, students primarily work on their own through the online curriculum. However, students have the added benefit&amp;nbsp;of an&amp;nbsp;instructor&amp;nbsp;hosting live lectures and the ability to meet with the instructor as needed during completion of the course.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;While completing the instructor-assisted curriculum, students are able to continue performing their day-to-day work duties. This eases the burden on students and employers alike, who often can&amp;#39;t afford to&amp;nbsp;put off&amp;nbsp;their current responsibilities for extended and demanding training sessions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="core_roles_and_training"&gt;Core Roles and Training&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;At Appian, we think a successful team is a combination of a few select roles that each play an important&amp;nbsp;part in project outcomes. When our education services team talks to customers and partners who are just beginning their Appian journey, one of the first things we want them to understand is the who. In other words, before you even begin to select the right training for your Appian team, you need to know who is supposed to be on the team to begin with. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Leaders&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian leaders, including Appian stakeholders and decision makers, benefit most from the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/appian-overview"&gt;Appian Overview course&lt;/a&gt;. It&amp;rsquo;s a lightweight curriculum that covers the basics and introduces students to Appian terminology and capabilities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Planners&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian planners, such as business analysts and project managers, should complete the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/appian-foundations"&gt;Appian Foundations&lt;/a&gt; course. This training curriculum covers our methodology and teaches students how to properly gather and define requirements. As part of that objective, each student will learn the main objects and components of Appian and how they are used to solve business problems.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Builders&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Builders are the core of your team, so they should complete our most comprehensive course, the &lt;a href="/learn/courses#learn-builder"&gt;Appian Developer training&lt;/a&gt;. More specific training paths for developers are outlined under Developer Courses below.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Administrators&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Administrators benefit from two different courses. The Application Owner, who is responsible for the health and maintenance of existing applications, benefits most from the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/application-administrator"&gt;Application Administrator course&lt;/a&gt;. Going a step beyond that, System administrators benefit from the &lt;a href="/learn/courses#learn-admin"&gt;Appian Administrator course&lt;/a&gt;. In this course, students learn how to manage Appian instances and servers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Learn more about these roles and responsibilities in&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="/success/w/article/2987/low-code-team-essentials"&gt;Low-code Team Essentials&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="developer_courses"&gt;Developer Courses&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;The primary role of a &lt;a href="/success/w/article/2982/build-your-low-code-development-team"&gt;low-code developer&lt;/a&gt; is executing the project backlog and building an application. As a developer gains more experience, they may choose to become either a senior / lead developer or put their skills into becoming a test manager. Whatever the path, here are some esssential courses to consider when training developers. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Associate Developers&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian Associate Developers start with the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/developer"&gt;Appian Developer course&lt;/a&gt;. This teaches them how to build each low-code Appian object, build user interfaces, and construct automation workflows based on application requirements.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;After that, we suggest they also participate in the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/applied-development"&gt;Appian Applied Development training&lt;/a&gt;, which builds on everything a student learns in the Developer curriculum by simulating an actual project with Appian. Students learn how to put our methodology into practice by planning and executing simple application architecture patterns according to the software development life cycle (SDLC).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Senior Developers&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;The goal for an Appian Senior Developer is to implement best practices of performance, scalability, usability, and maintainability. Since working developers are quite busy, we broke down the major interest areas into smaller individual courses. This allows Appian practitioners to get training only on the topic they need, when they need it. Completing each course is optional, but all of the topics covered in the Senior Developer series appear on the Senior Developer Certification exam.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul style="font-size:115%;"&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/advanced-ux-design"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Advanced UX Design&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt; teaches students how to optimize interfaces and better address the needs of users through improved research, planning, and testing of user interfaces.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/applied-ui"&gt;Applied UI&lt;/a&gt; builds on UX Design knowledge from the Advanced UX training to walk students through constructing elegant, efficient, and complex interfaces using Appian best practices.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/delivery-methodology"&gt;Appian Delivery Methodology&lt;/a&gt; builds on the software development life cycle students learned at the Associate level, and dives deeper into release strategies, backlog refinement, testing, education, support, and more.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-expressions"&gt;Advanced Expressions&lt;/a&gt; is an excellent course for students who come to Appian without deep programming backgrounds and teaches low-code best practices for performance and reusability.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-integrations"&gt;Advanced Integrations&lt;/a&gt; teaches students to better utilize APIs across applications, implement authentication protocols, and troubleshoot performance issues with integrations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-process-modeling"&gt;Appian Advanced Process Modeling&lt;/a&gt; provides several examples of common workflow patterns, and teaches students how to scale flexible processes for efficiency and high frequency.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-data-design"&gt;Advanced Data Design&lt;/a&gt; provides a deep dive into how Appian interacts with relational databases. This training curriculum helps students distinguish between different data structures, optimize queries, understand load testing, and best utilize Appian Data Sync capabilities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/appian-qa"&gt;Quality Testing&lt;/a&gt; teaches students how to implement the Appian proven quality assurance methodology into their applications. Students learn how to &amp;ldquo;bake in&amp;rdquo; testing criteria and tools at every step of the development process.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/appian-automation"&gt;Appian Automation&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="/training/courses/p/appian-applied-rpa"&gt;Applied RPA&lt;/a&gt; deepen developer skills by teaching implementation of Appian Robotic Process Automation, Intelligent Document Processing, and how to recognize the right use for the tools.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Lead Developers&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian Lead Developers primarily benefit from experience gained in the field. In fact, everything a Lead Developer needs to know has already been taught at the Senior Developer level&amp;mdash;the missing piece is simply practice. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="certification"&gt;Certification&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;While getting the right training is an&amp;nbsp;essential&amp;nbsp;first step, we also believe that it&amp;rsquo;s important to officially validate the knowledge and experience gained from training. To that end, we offer the &lt;a href="/learn/certifications"&gt;Appian Certification Program&lt;/a&gt;. We follow industry standards for development and security to ensure our certifications are reliable and trustworthy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;We brought in Appian experts from around the world under the tutelage of certification experts to help build the foundations of the program. A team of expert practitioners defined the expectations and skills to be measured for developers and analysts and then set about creating exams that validate those skills and expectations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Analyst Certification&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Non-developer team members, such as business analysts, project managers, product owners and UX designers, can benefit from the &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/certified-analyst"&gt;The Appian Certified Analyst exam&lt;/a&gt;. This certification will validate knowledge and training centered around planning successful projects.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Developer Certification&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Your developers should start down the developer certification pathway, which includes &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/associate-developer"&gt;Associate Developer&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/senior-developer"&gt;Senior Developer&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/lead-developer"&gt;Lead Developer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Tags: Training, People&lt;/div&gt;
</description></item><item><title>Train Your Appian Team</title><link>https://community.appian.com/success/w/guide/2969/train-your-appian-team/revision/4</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2023 14:55:23 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:f03278a6-4969-4877-b2dc-c3296c0046ca</guid><dc:creator>joel.larin</dc:creator><comments>https://community.appian.com/success/w/guide/2969/train-your-appian-team#comments</comments><description>Revision 4 posted to Guide by joel.larin on 1/26/2023 2:55:23 PM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="margin:8px 16% 8px 8%;"&gt;
&lt;h2 id="skills_covered"&gt;&lt;img alt=" " src="/resized-image/__size/712x304/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-00-46/4743.skillAndSource_2D00_02.png" /&gt;&lt;span class="sr-only"&gt;Skills Covered&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian training helps you take control of your projects and feel confident in your team&amp;rsquo;s ability to manage your Appian applications.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Skills Checklist:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul style="font-size:115%;"&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Identify the four basic team roles&amp;nbsp;that make up&amp;nbsp;an Appian team.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Recall appropriate training path for each basic team role.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Explain the three available Appian educational experiences.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Match each basic team&amp;nbsp;role to an associated certification pathway.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h2 id="appian_learning_experiences"&gt;&lt;img alt="Learning Experiences" src="/resized-image/__size/2848x1216/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-00-46/train_5F00_your_5F00_team_2D00_01.png" /&gt;&lt;span class="sr-only"&gt;Appian Learning Experiences&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;At Appian, our goal is to provide you with the resources you need to become self-sufficient. To aid in that effort, we offer a variety of learning experiences suited to your needs and student learning preferences.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;On-demand online training&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Most Appian training offerings are available for free and on demand through our extensive &lt;a href="https://academy.appian.com/"&gt;Academy Online&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;library. This should be your first stop for Appian training at any level.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Online trainings run as fast or as slow as a student needs. As part of our learning methodology, we design each course around active learning. This means students are encouraged to&amp;nbsp;perform the exercises given for each module.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Instructor-led training&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Talented Appian instructors take students on a guided learning experience. Students work at a set group pace alongside their classmates. The topics and objectives for instructor-led training are the same as the online courses, but the instructor is able to mentor and guide each student along the way. In addition, instructor-led training has the added benefit of collaboration and accountability among classmates, which ensures vital concepts are practiced and retained.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table style="border-color:#c3ddf5;" border="2"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="emoticon" data-url="https://community.appian.com/cfs-file/__key/system/emoji/1f4a1.svg" title="Bulb"&gt;&amp;#x1f4a1;&lt;/span&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Some instructor-led courses, such as Applied Development, do not have online equivalents and can only be&amp;nbsp;taken in the classroom format.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Instructor-assisted training&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;We believe in flexibility and realize that many students benefit from a hybrid training format. For this type of student, we offer instructor-assisted training.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Under this learning experience, students primarily work on their own through the online curriculum. However, students have the added benefit&amp;nbsp;of an&amp;nbsp;instructor&amp;nbsp;hosting live lectures and the ability to meet with the instructor as needed during completion of the course.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;While completing the instructor-assisted curriculum, students are able to continue performing their day-to-day work duties. This eases the burden on students and employers alike, who often can&amp;#39;t afford to&amp;nbsp;put off&amp;nbsp;their current responsibilities for extended and demanding training sessions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="core_roles_and_training"&gt;&lt;img alt="Core roles and training" src="/resized-image/__size/2848x1216/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-00-46/train_5F00_your_5F00_team_2D00_03.png" /&gt;&lt;span class="sr-only"&gt;Core Roles and Training&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;At Appian, we think a successful team is a combination of a few select roles that each play an important&amp;nbsp;part in project outcomes. When our education services team talks to customers and partners who are just beginning their Appian journey, one of the first things we want them to understand is the who. In other words, before you even begin to select the right training for your Appian team, you need to know who is supposed to be on the team to begin with. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Leaders&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian leaders, including Appian stakeholders and decision makers, benefit most from the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/appian-overview"&gt;Appian Overview course&lt;/a&gt;. It&amp;rsquo;s a lightweight curriculum that covers the basics and introduces students to Appian terminology and capabilities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Planners&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian planners, such as business analysts and project managers, should complete the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/appian-foundations"&gt;Appian Foundations&lt;/a&gt; course. This training curriculum covers our methodology and teaches students how to properly gather and define requirements. As part of that objective, each student will learn the main objects and components of Appian and how they are used to solve business problems.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Builders&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Builders are the core of your team, so they should complete our most comprehensive course, the &lt;a href="/learn/courses#learn-builder"&gt;Appian Developer training&lt;/a&gt;. More specific training paths for developers are outlined under Developer Courses below.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Administrators&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Administrators benefit from two different courses. The Application Owner, who is responsible for the health and maintenance of existing applications, benefits most from the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/application-administrator"&gt;Application Administrator course&lt;/a&gt;. Going a step beyond that, System administrators benefit from the &lt;a href="/learn/courses#learn-admin"&gt;Appian Administrator course&lt;/a&gt;. In this course, students learn how to manage Appian instances and servers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Learn more about these roles and responsibilities in&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="/success/w/article/2987/low-code-team-essentials"&gt;Low-code Team Essentials&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="developer_courses"&gt;&lt;img alt="Developer courses" src="/resized-image/__size/2848x1216/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-00-46/train_5F00_your_5F00_team_2D00_05.png" /&gt;&lt;span class="sr-only"&gt;Developer Courses&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;The primary role of a &lt;a href="/success/w/article/2982/build-your-low-code-development-team"&gt;low-code developer&lt;/a&gt; is executing the project backlog and building an application. As a developer gains more experience, they may choose to become either a senior / lead developer or put their skills into becoming a test manager. Whatever the path, here are some esssential courses to consider when training developers. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Associate Developers&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian Associate Developers start with the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/developer"&gt;Appian Developer course&lt;/a&gt;. This teaches them how to build each low-code Appian object, build user interfaces, and construct automation workflows based on application requirements.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;After that, we suggest they also participate in the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/applied-development"&gt;Appian Applied Development training&lt;/a&gt;, which builds on everything a student learns in the Developer curriculum by simulating an actual project with Appian. Students learn how to put our methodology into practice by planning and executing simple application architecture patterns according to the software development life cycle (SDLC).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Senior Developers&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;The goal for an Appian Senior Developer is to implement best practices of performance, scalability, usability, and maintainability. Since working developers are quite busy, we broke down the major interest areas into smaller individual courses. This allows Appian practitioners to get training only on the topic they need, when they need it. Completing each course is optional, but all of the topics covered in the Senior Developer series appear on the Senior Developer Certification exam.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul style="font-size:115%;"&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/advanced-ux-design"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Advanced UX Design&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt; teaches students how to optimize interfaces and better address the needs of users through improved research, planning, and testing of user interfaces.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/applied-ui"&gt;Applied UI&lt;/a&gt; builds on UX Design knowledge from the Advanced UX training to walk students through constructing elegant, efficient, and complex interfaces using Appian best practices.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/delivery-methodology"&gt;Appian Delivery Methodology&lt;/a&gt; builds on the software development life cycle students learned at the Associate level, and dives deeper into release strategies, backlog refinement, testing, education, support, and more.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-expressions"&gt;Advanced Expressions&lt;/a&gt; is an excellent course for students who come to Appian without deep programming backgrounds and teaches low-code best practices for performance and reusability.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-integrations"&gt;Advanced Integrations&lt;/a&gt; teaches students to better utilize APIs across applications, implement authentication protocols, and troubleshoot performance issues with integrations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-process-modeling"&gt;Appian Advanced Process Modeling&lt;/a&gt; provides several examples of common workflow patterns, and teaches students how to scale flexible processes for efficiency and high frequency.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-data-design"&gt;Advanced Data Design&lt;/a&gt; provides a deep dive into how Appian interacts with relational databases. This training curriculum helps students distinguish between different data structures, optimize queries, understand load testing, and best utilize Appian Data Sync capabilities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/appian-qa"&gt;Quality Testing&lt;/a&gt; teaches students how to implement the Appian proven quality assurance methodology into their applications. Students learn how to &amp;ldquo;bake in&amp;rdquo; testing criteria and tools at every step of the development process.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/appian-automation"&gt;Appian Automation&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="/training/courses/p/appian-applied-rpa"&gt;Applied RPA&lt;/a&gt; deepen developer skills by teaching implementation of Appian Robotic Process Automation, Intelligent Document Processing, and how to recognize the right use for the tools.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Lead Developers&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian Lead Developers primarily benefit from experience gained in the field. In fact, everything a Lead Developer needs to know has already been taught at the Senior Developer level&amp;mdash;the missing piece is simply practice. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="certification"&gt;&lt;img alt="Appian Certification Program" src="/resized-image/__size/2848x1216/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-00-46/train_5F00_your_5F00_team_2D00_04.png" /&gt;&lt;span class="sr-only"&gt;Certification&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;While getting the right training is an&amp;nbsp;essential&amp;nbsp;first step, we also believe that it&amp;rsquo;s important to officially validate the knowledge and experience gained from training. To that end, we offer the &lt;a href="/learn/certifications"&gt;Appian Certification Program&lt;/a&gt;. We follow industry standards for development and security to ensure our certifications are reliable and trustworthy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;We brought in Appian experts from around the world under the tutelage of certification experts to help build the foundations of the program. A team of expert practitioners defined the expectations and skills to be measured for developers and analysts and then set about creating exams that validate those skills and expectations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Analyst Certification&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Non-developer team members, such as business analysts, project managers, product owners and UX designers, can benefit from the &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/certified-analyst"&gt;The Appian Certified Analyst exam&lt;/a&gt;. This certification will validate knowledge and training centered around planning successful projects.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Developer Certification&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Your developers should start down the developer certification pathway, which includes &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/associate-developer"&gt;Associate Developer&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/senior-developer"&gt;Senior Developer&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/lead-developer"&gt;Lead Developer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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</description></item><item><title>Train Your Appian Team</title><link>https://community.appian.com/success/w/guide/2969/train-your-appian-team/revision/3</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2022 01:40:35 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:f03278a6-4969-4877-b2dc-c3296c0046ca</guid><dc:creator>joel.larin</dc:creator><comments>https://community.appian.com/success/w/guide/2969/train-your-appian-team#comments</comments><description>Revision 3 posted to Guide by joel.larin on 12/12/2022 1:40:35 AM&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;h2 id="skills_covered"&gt;&lt;img alt=" " src="/resized-image/__size/712x304/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-00-46/4743.skillAndSource_2D00_02.png" /&gt;&lt;span class="sr-only"&gt;Skills Covered&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian training helps you take control of your projects and feel confident in your team&amp;rsquo;s ability to manage your Appian applications.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Skills Checklist:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul style="font-size:115%;"&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Identify the four basic team roles&amp;nbsp;that make up&amp;nbsp;an Appian team.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Recall appropriate training path for each basic team role.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Explain the three available Appian educational experiences.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Match each basic team&amp;nbsp;role to an associated certification pathway.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h2 id="appian_learning_experiences"&gt;&lt;img alt="Learning Experiences" src="/resized-image/__size/2848x1216/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-00-46/train_5F00_your_5F00_team_2D00_01.png" /&gt;&lt;span class="sr-only"&gt;Appian Learning Experiences&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;At Appian, our goal is to provide you with the resources you need to become self-sufficient. To aid in that effort, we offer a variety of learning experiences suited to your needs and student learning preferences.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;On-demand online training&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Most Appian training offerings are available for free and on demand through our extensive &lt;a href="https://academy.appian.com/"&gt;Academy Online&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;library. This should be your first stop for Appian training at any level.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Online trainings run as fast or as slow as a student needs. As part of our learning methodology, we design each course around active learning. This means students are encouraged to&amp;nbsp;perform the exercises given for each module.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Instructor-led training&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Talented Appian instructors take students on a guided learning experience. Students work at a set group pace alongside their classmates. The topics and objectives for instructor-led training are the same as the online courses, but the instructor is able to mentor and guide each student along the way. In addition, instructor-led training has the added benefit of collaboration and accountability among classmates, which ensures vital concepts are practiced and retained.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table style="border-color:#c3ddf5;" border="2"&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="emoticon" data-url="https://community.appian.com/cfs-file/__key/system/emoji/1f4a1.svg" title="Bulb"&gt;&amp;#x1f4a1;&lt;/span&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Some instructor-led courses, such as Applied Development, do not have online equivalents and can only be&amp;nbsp;taken in the classroom format.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h3&gt;Instructor-assisted training&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;We believe in flexibility and realize that many students benefit from a hybrid training format. For this type of student, we offer instructor-assisted training.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Under this learning experience, students primarily work on their own through the online curriculum. However, students have the added benefit&amp;nbsp;of an&amp;nbsp;instructor&amp;nbsp;hosting live lectures and the ability to meet with the instructor as needed during completion of the course.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;While completing the instructor-assisted curriculum, students are able to continue performing their day-to-day work duties. This eases the burden on students and employers alike, who often can&amp;#39;t afford to&amp;nbsp;put off&amp;nbsp;their current responsibilities for extended and demanding training sessions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="core_roles_and_training"&gt;&lt;img alt="Core roles and training" src="/resized-image/__size/2848x1216/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-00-46/train_5F00_your_5F00_team_2D00_03.png" /&gt;&lt;span class="sr-only"&gt;Core Roles and Training&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;At Appian, we think a successful team is a combination of a few select roles that each play an important&amp;nbsp;part in project outcomes. When our education services team talks to customers and partners who are just beginning their Appian journey, one of the first things we want them to understand is the who. In other words, before you even begin to select the right training for your Appian team, you need to know who is supposed to be on the team to begin with. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Leaders&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian leaders, including Appian stakeholders and decision makers, benefit most from the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/appian-overview"&gt;Appian Overview course&lt;/a&gt;. It&amp;rsquo;s a lightweight curriculum that covers the basics and introduces students to Appian terminology and capabilities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Planners&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian planners, such as business analysts and project managers, should complete the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/appian-foundations"&gt;Appian Foundations&lt;/a&gt; course. This training curriculum covers our methodology and teaches students how to properly gather and define requirements. As part of that objective, each student will learn the main objects and components of Appian and how they are used to solve business problems.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Builders&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Builders are the core of your team, so they should complete our most comprehensive course, the &lt;a href="/learn/courses#learn-builder"&gt;Appian Developer training&lt;/a&gt;. More specific training paths for developers are outlined under Developer Courses below.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Administrators&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Administrators benefit from two different courses. The Application Owner, who is responsible for the health and maintenance of existing applications, benefits most from the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/application-administrator"&gt;Application Administrator course&lt;/a&gt;. Going a step beyond that, System administrators benefit from the &lt;a href="https://academy.appian.com/#/curricula/7e3f9883-2204-428b-9416-62edb06d97c9"&gt;Appian Administrator course&lt;/a&gt;. In this course, students learn how to manage Appian instances and servers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Learn more about these roles and responsibilities in&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="/success/w/article/2987/low-code-team-essentials"&gt;Low-code Team Essentials&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="developer_courses"&gt;&lt;img alt="Developer courses" src="/resized-image/__size/2848x1216/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-00-46/train_5F00_your_5F00_team_2D00_05.png" /&gt;&lt;span class="sr-only"&gt;Developer Courses&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;The primary role of a &lt;a href="/success/w/article/2982/build-your-low-code-development-team"&gt;low-code developer&lt;/a&gt; is executing the project backlog and building an application. As a developer gains more experience, they may choose to become either a senior / lead developer or put their skills into becoming a test manager. Whatever the path, here are some esssential courses to consider when training developers. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Associate Developers&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian Associate Developers start with the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/developer"&gt;Appian Developer course&lt;/a&gt;. This teaches them how to build each low-code Appian object, build user interfaces, and construct automation workflows based on application requirements.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;After that, we suggest they also participate in the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/applied-development"&gt;Appian Applied Development training&lt;/a&gt;, which builds on everything a student learns in the Developer curriculum by simulating an actual project with Appian. Students learn how to put our methodology into practice by planning and executing simple application architecture patterns according to the software development life cycle (SDLC).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Senior Developers&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;The goal for an Appian Senior Developer is to implement best practices of performance, scalability, usability, and maintainability. Since working developers are quite busy, we broke down the major interest areas into smaller individual courses. This allows Appian practitioners to get training only on the topic they need, when they need it. Completing each course is optional, but all of the topics covered in the Senior Developer series appear on the Senior Developer Certification exam.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul style="font-size:115%;"&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/advanced-ux-design"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Advanced UX Design&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt; teaches students how to optimize interfaces and better address the needs of users through improved research, planning, and testing of user interfaces.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/applied-ui"&gt;Applied UI&lt;/a&gt; builds on UX Design knowledge from the Advanced UX training to walk students through constructing elegant, efficient, and complex interfaces using Appian best practices.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/delivery-methodology"&gt;Appian Delivery Methodology&lt;/a&gt; builds on the software development life cycle students learned at the Associate level, and dives deeper into release strategies, backlog refinement, testing, education, support, and more.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-expressions"&gt;Advanced Expressions&lt;/a&gt; is an excellent course for students who come to Appian without deep programming backgrounds and teaches low-code best practices for performance and reusability.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-integrations"&gt;Advanced Integrations&lt;/a&gt; teaches students to better utilize APIs across applications, implement authentication protocols, and troubleshoot performance issues with integrations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-process-modeling"&gt;Appian Advanced Process Modeling&lt;/a&gt; provides several examples of common workflow patterns, and teaches students how to scale flexible processes for efficiency and high frequency.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-data-design"&gt;Advanced Data Design&lt;/a&gt; provides a deep dive into how Appian interacts with relational databases. This training curriculum helps students distinguish between different data structures, optimize queries, understand load testing, and best utilize Appian Data Sync capabilities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/appian-qa"&gt;Quality Testing&lt;/a&gt; teaches students how to implement the Appian proven quality assurance methodology into their applications. Students learn how to &amp;ldquo;bake in&amp;rdquo; testing criteria and tools at every step of the development process.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/appian-automation"&gt;Appian Automation&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="/training/courses/p/appian-applied-rpa"&gt;Applied RPA&lt;/a&gt; deepen developer skills by teaching implementation of Appian Robotic Process Automation, Intelligent Document Processing, and how to recognize the right use for the tools.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Lead Developers&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian Lead Developers primarily benefit from experience gained in the field. In fact, everything a Lead Developer needs to know has already been taught at the Senior Developer level&amp;mdash;the missing piece is simply practice. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="certification"&gt;&lt;img alt="Appian Certification Program" src="/resized-image/__size/2848x1216/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-00-46/train_5F00_your_5F00_team_2D00_04.png" /&gt;&lt;span class="sr-only"&gt;Certification&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;While getting the right training is an&amp;nbsp;essential&amp;nbsp;first step, we also believe that it&amp;rsquo;s important to officially validate the knowledge and experience gained from training. To that end, we offer the &lt;a href="/learn/certifications"&gt;Appian Certification Program&lt;/a&gt;. We follow industry standards for development and security to ensure our certifications are reliable and trustworthy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;We brought in Appian experts from around the world under the tutelage of certification experts to help build the foundations of the program. A team of expert practitioners defined the expectations and skills to be measured for developers and analysts and then set about creating exams that validate those skills and expectations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Analyst Certification&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Non-developer team members, such as business analysts, project managers, product owners and UX designers, can benefit from the &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/certified-analyst"&gt;The Appian Certified Analyst exam&lt;/a&gt;. This certification will validate knowledge and training centered around planning successful projects.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Developer Certification&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Your developers should start down the developer certification pathway, which includes &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/associate-developer"&gt;Associate Developer&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/senior-developer"&gt;Senior Developer&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/lead-developer"&gt;Lead Developer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Tags: Training, People&lt;/div&gt;
</description></item><item><title>Train Your Appian Team</title><link>https://community.appian.com/success/w/guide/2969/train-your-appian-team/revision/2</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2022 01:40:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:f03278a6-4969-4877-b2dc-c3296c0046ca</guid><dc:creator>joel.larin</dc:creator><comments>https://community.appian.com/success/w/guide/2969/train-your-appian-team#comments</comments><description>Revision 2 posted to Guide by joel.larin on 12/12/2022 1:40:00 AM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="margin:8px 16% 8px 8%;"&gt;
&lt;h2 id="skills_covered"&gt;&lt;img alt=" " src="/resized-image/__size/712x304/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-00-46/4743.skillAndSource_2D00_02.png" /&gt;&lt;span class="sr-only"&gt;Skills Covered&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian training helps you take control of your projects and feel confident in your team&amp;rsquo;s ability to manage your Appian applications.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Skills Checklist:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul style="font-size:115%;"&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Identify the four basic team roles&amp;nbsp;that make up&amp;nbsp;an Appian team.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Recall appropriate training path for each basic team role.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Explain the three available Appian educational experiences.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Match each basic team&amp;nbsp;role to an associated certification pathway.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h2 id="appian_learning_experiences"&gt;&lt;img alt="Learning Experiences" src="/resized-image/__size/2848x1216/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-00-46/train_5F00_your_5F00_team_2D00_01.png" /&gt;&lt;span class="sr-only"&gt;Appian Learning Experiences&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;At Appian, our goal is to provide you with the resources you need to become self-sufficient. To aid in that effort, we offer a variety of learning experiences suited to your needs and student learning preferences.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;On-demand online training&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Most Appian training offerings are available for free and on demand through our extensive &lt;a href="https://academy.appian.com/"&gt;Academy Online&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;library. This should be your first stop for Appian training at any level.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Online trainings run as fast or as slow as a student needs. As part of our learning methodology, we design each course around active learning. This means students are encouraged to&amp;nbsp;perform the exercises given for each module.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Instructor-led training&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Talented Appian instructors take students on a guided learning experience. Students work at a set group pace alongside their classmates. The topics and objectives for instructor-led training are the same as the online courses, but the instructor is able to mentor and guide each student along the way. In addition, instructor-led training has the added benefit of collaboration and accountability among classmates, which ensures vital concepts are practiced and retained.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table style="border-color:#c3ddf5;" border="2"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="emoticon" data-url="https://community.appian.com/cfs-file/__key/system/emoji/1f4a1.svg" title="Bulb"&gt;&amp;#x1f4a1;&lt;/span&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Some instructor-led courses, such as Applied Development, do not have online equivalents and can only be&amp;nbsp;taken in the classroom format.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Instructor-assisted training&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;We believe in flexibility and realize that many students benefit from a hybrid training format. For this type of student, we offer instructor-assisted training.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Under this learning experience, students primarily work on their own through the online curriculum. However, students have the added benefit&amp;nbsp;of an&amp;nbsp;instructor&amp;nbsp;hosting live lectures and the ability to meet with the instructor as needed during completion of the course.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;While completing the instructor-assisted curriculum, students are able to continue performing their day-to-day work duties. This eases the burden on students and employers alike, who often can&amp;#39;t afford to&amp;nbsp;put off&amp;nbsp;their current responsibilities for extended and demanding training sessions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="core_roles_and_training"&gt;&lt;img alt="Core roles and training" src="/resized-image/__size/2848x1216/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-00-46/train_5F00_your_5F00_team_2D00_03.png" /&gt;&lt;span class="sr-only"&gt;Core Roles and Training&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;At Appian, we think a successful team is a combination of a few select roles that each play an important&amp;nbsp;part in project outcomes. When our education services team talks to customers and partners who are just beginning their Appian journey, one of the first things we want them to understand is the who. In other words, before you even begin to select the right training for your Appian team, you need to know who is supposed to be on the team to begin with. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Leaders&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian leaders, including Appian stakeholders and decision makers, benefit most from the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/appian-overview"&gt;Appian Overview course&lt;/a&gt;. It&amp;rsquo;s a lightweight curriculum that covers the basics and introduces students to Appian terminology and capabilities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Planners&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian planners, such as business analysts and project managers, should complete the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/appian-foundations"&gt;Appian Foundations&lt;/a&gt; course. This training curriculum covers our methodology and teaches students how to properly gather and define requirements. As part of that objective, each student will learn the main objects and components of Appian and how they are used to solve business problems.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Builders&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Builders are the core of your team, so they should complete our most comprehensive course, the &lt;a href="/learn/courses#learn-builder"&gt;Appian Developer training&lt;/a&gt;. More specific training paths for developers are outlined under Developer Courses below.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Administrators&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Administrators benefit from two different courses. The Application Owner, who is responsible for the health and maintenance of existing applications, benefits most from the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/application-administrator"&gt;Application Administrator course&lt;/a&gt;. Going a step beyond that, System administrators benefit from the &lt;a href="https://academy.appian.com/#/curricula/7e3f9883-2204-428b-9416-62edb06d97c9"&gt;Appian Administrator course&lt;/a&gt;. In this course, students learn how to manage Appian instances and servers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Learn more about these roles and responsibilities in&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="/success/w/article/2987/low-code-team-essentials"&gt;Low-code Team Essentials&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="developer_courses"&gt;&lt;img alt="Developer courses" src="/resized-image/__size/2848x1216/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-00-46/train_5F00_your_5F00_team_2D00_05.png" /&gt;&lt;span class="sr-only"&gt;Developer Courses&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;The primary role of a &lt;a href="/w/appian-max/2677/build-your-low-code-development-team"&gt;low-code developer&lt;/a&gt; is executing the project backlog and building an application. As a developer gains more experience, they may choose to become either a senior / lead developer or put their skills into becoming a test manager. Whatever the path, here are some esssential courses to consider when training developers. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Associate Developers&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian Associate Developers start with the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/developer"&gt;Appian Developer course&lt;/a&gt;. This teaches them how to build each low-code Appian object, build user interfaces, and construct automation workflows based on application requirements.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;After that, we suggest they also participate in the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/applied-development"&gt;Appian Applied Development training&lt;/a&gt;, which builds on everything a student learns in the Developer curriculum by simulating an actual project with Appian. Students learn how to put our methodology into practice by planning and executing simple application architecture patterns according to the software development life cycle (SDLC).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Senior Developers&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;The goal for an Appian Senior Developer is to implement best practices of performance, scalability, usability, and maintainability. Since working developers are quite busy, we broke down the major interest areas into smaller individual courses. This allows Appian practitioners to get training only on the topic they need, when they need it. Completing each course is optional, but all of the topics covered in the Senior Developer series appear on the Senior Developer Certification exam.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul style="font-size:115%;"&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/advanced-ux-design"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Advanced UX Design&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt; teaches students how to optimize interfaces and better address the needs of users through improved research, planning, and testing of user interfaces.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/applied-ui"&gt;Applied UI&lt;/a&gt; builds on UX Design knowledge from the Advanced UX training to walk students through constructing elegant, efficient, and complex interfaces using Appian best practices.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/delivery-methodology"&gt;Appian Delivery Methodology&lt;/a&gt; builds on the software development life cycle students learned at the Associate level, and dives deeper into release strategies, backlog refinement, testing, education, support, and more.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-expressions"&gt;Advanced Expressions&lt;/a&gt; is an excellent course for students who come to Appian without deep programming backgrounds and teaches low-code best practices for performance and reusability.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-integrations"&gt;Advanced Integrations&lt;/a&gt; teaches students to better utilize APIs across applications, implement authentication protocols, and troubleshoot performance issues with integrations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-process-modeling"&gt;Appian Advanced Process Modeling&lt;/a&gt; provides several examples of common workflow patterns, and teaches students how to scale flexible processes for efficiency and high frequency.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-data-design"&gt;Advanced Data Design&lt;/a&gt; provides a deep dive into how Appian interacts with relational databases. This training curriculum helps students distinguish between different data structures, optimize queries, understand load testing, and best utilize Appian Data Sync capabilities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/appian-qa"&gt;Quality Testing&lt;/a&gt; teaches students how to implement the Appian proven quality assurance methodology into their applications. Students learn how to &amp;ldquo;bake in&amp;rdquo; testing criteria and tools at every step of the development process.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/appian-automation"&gt;Appian Automation&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="/training/courses/p/appian-applied-rpa"&gt;Applied RPA&lt;/a&gt; deepen developer skills by teaching implementation of Appian Robotic Process Automation, Intelligent Document Processing, and how to recognize the right use for the tools.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Lead Developers&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian Lead Developers primarily benefit from experience gained in the field. In fact, everything a Lead Developer needs to know has already been taught at the Senior Developer level&amp;mdash;the missing piece is simply practice. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="certification"&gt;&lt;img alt="Appian Certification Program" src="/resized-image/__size/2848x1216/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-00-46/train_5F00_your_5F00_team_2D00_04.png" /&gt;&lt;span class="sr-only"&gt;Certification&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;While getting the right training is an&amp;nbsp;essential&amp;nbsp;first step, we also believe that it&amp;rsquo;s important to officially validate the knowledge and experience gained from training. To that end, we offer the &lt;a href="/learn/certifications"&gt;Appian Certification Program&lt;/a&gt;. We follow industry standards for development and security to ensure our certifications are reliable and trustworthy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;We brought in Appian experts from around the world under the tutelage of certification experts to help build the foundations of the program. A team of expert practitioners defined the expectations and skills to be measured for developers and analysts and then set about creating exams that validate those skills and expectations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Analyst Certification&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Non-developer team members, such as business analysts, project managers, product owners and UX designers, can benefit from the &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/certified-analyst"&gt;The Appian Certified Analyst exam&lt;/a&gt;. This certification will validate knowledge and training centered around planning successful projects.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Developer Certification&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Your developers should start down the developer certification pathway, which includes &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/associate-developer"&gt;Associate Developer&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/senior-developer"&gt;Senior Developer&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/lead-developer"&gt;Lead Developer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Tags: Training, People&lt;/div&gt;
</description></item><item><title>Train Your Appian Team</title><link>https://community.appian.com/success/w/guide/2969/train-your-appian-team/revision/1</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2022 16:23:59 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:f03278a6-4969-4877-b2dc-c3296c0046ca</guid><dc:creator>joel.larin</dc:creator><comments>https://community.appian.com/success/w/guide/2969/train-your-appian-team#comments</comments><description>Revision 1 posted to Guide by joel.larin on 12/9/2022 4:23:59 PM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="margin:8px 16% 8px 8%;"&gt;
&lt;h2 id="skills_covered"&gt;&lt;img alt=" " src="/resized-image/__size/712x304/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-00-46/4743.skillAndSource_2D00_02.png" /&gt;&lt;span class="sr-only"&gt;Skills Covered&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian training helps you take control of your projects and feel confident in your team&amp;rsquo;s ability to manage your Appian applications.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Skills Checklist:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul style="font-size:115%;"&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Identify the four basic team roles&amp;nbsp;that make up&amp;nbsp;an Appian team.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Recall appropriate training path for each basic team role.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Explain the three available Appian educational experiences.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Match each basic team&amp;nbsp;role to an associated certification pathway.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h2 id="appian_learning_experiences"&gt;&lt;img alt="Learning Experiences" src="/resized-image/__size/2848x1216/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-00-46/train_5F00_your_5F00_team_2D00_01.png" /&gt;&lt;span class="sr-only"&gt;Appian Learning Experiences&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;At Appian, our goal is to provide you with the resources you need to become self-sufficient. To aid in that effort, we offer a variety of learning experiences suited to your needs and student learning preferences.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;On-demand online training&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Most Appian training offerings are available for free and on demand through our extensive &lt;a href="https://academy.appian.com/"&gt;Academy Online&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;library. This should be your first stop for Appian training at any level.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Online trainings run as fast or as slow as a student needs. As part of our learning methodology, we design each course around active learning. This means students are encouraged to&amp;nbsp;perform the exercises given for each module.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Instructor-led training&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Talented Appian instructors take students on a guided learning experience. Students work at a set group pace alongside their classmates. The topics and objectives for instructor-led training are the same as the online courses, but the instructor is able to mentor and guide each student along the way. In addition, instructor-led training has the added benefit of collaboration and accountability among classmates, which ensures vital concepts are practiced and retained.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table style="border-color:#c3ddf5;" border="2"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="emoticon" data-url="https://community.appian.com/cfs-file/__key/system/emoji/1f4a1.svg" title="Bulb"&gt;&amp;#x1f4a1;&lt;/span&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Some instructor-led courses, such as Applied Development, do not have online equivalents and can only be&amp;nbsp;taken in the classroom format.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Instructor-assisted training&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;We believe in flexibility and realize that many students benefit from a hybrid training format. For this type of student, we offer instructor-assisted training.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Under this learning experience, students primarily work on their own through the online curriculum. However, students have the added benefit&amp;nbsp;of an&amp;nbsp;instructor&amp;nbsp;hosting live lectures and the ability to meet with the instructor as needed during completion of the course.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;While completing the instructor-assisted curriculum, students are able to continue performing their day-to-day work duties. This eases the burden on students and employers alike, who often can&amp;#39;t afford to&amp;nbsp;put off&amp;nbsp;their current responsibilities for extended and demanding training sessions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="core_roles_and_training"&gt;&lt;img alt="Core roles and training" src="/resized-image/__size/2848x1216/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-00-46/train_5F00_your_5F00_team_2D00_03.png" /&gt;&lt;span class="sr-only"&gt;Core Roles and Training&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;At Appian, we think a successful team is a combination of a few select roles that each play an important&amp;nbsp;part in project outcomes. When our education services team talks to customers and partners who are just beginning their Appian journey, one of the first things we want them to understand is the who. In other words, before you even begin to select the right training for your Appian team, you need to know who is supposed to be on the team to begin with. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Leaders&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian leaders, including Appian stakeholders and decision makers, benefit most from the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/appian-overview"&gt;Appian Overview course&lt;/a&gt;. It&amp;rsquo;s a lightweight curriculum that covers the basics and introduces students to Appian terminology and capabilities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Planners&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian planners, such as business analysts and project managers, should complete the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/appian-foundations"&gt;Appian Foundations&lt;/a&gt; course. This training curriculum covers our methodology and teaches students how to properly gather and define requirements. As part of that objective, each student will learn the main objects and components of Appian and how they are used to solve business problems.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Builders&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Builders are the core of your team, so they should complete our most comprehensive course, the &lt;a href="/learn/courses#learn-builder"&gt;Appian Developer training&lt;/a&gt;. More specific training paths for developers are outlined under Developer Courses below.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Administrators&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Administrators benefit from two different courses. The Application Owner, who is responsible for the health and maintenance of existing applications, benefits most from the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/application-administrator"&gt;Application Administrator course&lt;/a&gt;. Going a step beyond that, System administrators benefit from the &lt;a href="https://academy.appian.com/#/curricula/7e3f9883-2204-428b-9416-62edb06d97c9"&gt;Appian Administrator course&lt;/a&gt;. In this course, students learn how to manage Appian instances and servers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Learn more about these roles and responsibilities in&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="/w/appian-max/2679/low-code-team-essentials"&gt;Low-code Team Essentials&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="developer_courses"&gt;&lt;img alt="Developer courses" src="/resized-image/__size/2848x1216/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-00-46/train_5F00_your_5F00_team_2D00_05.png" /&gt;&lt;span class="sr-only"&gt;Developer Courses&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;The primary role of a &lt;a href="/w/appian-max/2677/build-your-low-code-development-team"&gt;low-code developer&lt;/a&gt; is executing the project backlog and building an application. As a developer gains more experience, they may choose to become either a senior / lead developer or put their skills into becoming a test manager. Whatever the path, here are some esssential courses to consider when training developers. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Associate Developers&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian Associate Developers start with the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/developer"&gt;Appian Developer course&lt;/a&gt;. This teaches them how to build each low-code Appian object, build user interfaces, and construct automation workflows based on application requirements.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;After that, we suggest they also participate in the &lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/applied-development"&gt;Appian Applied Development training&lt;/a&gt;, which builds on everything a student learns in the Developer curriculum by simulating an actual project with Appian. Students learn how to put our methodology into practice by planning and executing simple application architecture patterns according to the software development life cycle (SDLC).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Senior Developers&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;The goal for an Appian Senior Developer is to implement best practices of performance, scalability, usability, and maintainability. Since working developers are quite busy, we broke down the major interest areas into smaller individual courses. This allows Appian practitioners to get training only on the topic they need, when they need it. Completing each course is optional, but all of the topics covered in the Senior Developer series appear on the Senior Developer Certification exam.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul style="font-size:115%;"&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/advanced-ux-design"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Advanced UX Design&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt; teaches students how to optimize interfaces and better address the needs of users through improved research, planning, and testing of user interfaces.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/applied-ui"&gt;Applied UI&lt;/a&gt; builds on UX Design knowledge from the Advanced UX training to walk students through constructing elegant, efficient, and complex interfaces using Appian best practices.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/delivery-methodology"&gt;Appian Delivery Methodology&lt;/a&gt; builds on the software development life cycle students learned at the Associate level, and dives deeper into release strategies, backlog refinement, testing, education, support, and more.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-expressions"&gt;Advanced Expressions&lt;/a&gt; is an excellent course for students who come to Appian without deep programming backgrounds and teaches low-code best practices for performance and reusability.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-integrations"&gt;Advanced Integrations&lt;/a&gt; teaches students to better utilize APIs across applications, implement authentication protocols, and troubleshoot performance issues with integrations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-process-modeling"&gt;Appian Advanced Process Modeling&lt;/a&gt; provides several examples of common workflow patterns, and teaches students how to scale flexible processes for efficiency and high frequency.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/advanced-data-design"&gt;Advanced Data Design&lt;/a&gt; provides a deep dive into how Appian interacts with relational databases. This training curriculum helps students distinguish between different data structures, optimize queries, understand load testing, and best utilize Appian Data Sync capabilities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/training/courses/p/appian-qa"&gt;Quality Testing&lt;/a&gt; teaches students how to implement the Appian proven quality assurance methodology into their applications. Students learn how to &amp;ldquo;bake in&amp;rdquo; testing criteria and tools at every step of the development process.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;&lt;a href="/learn/courses/p/appian-automation"&gt;Appian Automation&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="/training/courses/p/appian-applied-rpa"&gt;Applied RPA&lt;/a&gt; deepen developer skills by teaching implementation of Appian Robotic Process Automation, Intelligent Document Processing, and how to recognize the right use for the tools.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Lead Developers&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Appian Lead Developers primarily benefit from experience gained in the field. In fact, everything a Lead Developer needs to know has already been taught at the Senior Developer level&amp;mdash;the missing piece is simply practice. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="certification"&gt;&lt;img alt="Appian Certification Program" src="/resized-image/__size/2848x1216/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-00-46/train_5F00_your_5F00_team_2D00_04.png" /&gt;&lt;span class="sr-only"&gt;Certification&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;While getting the right training is an&amp;nbsp;essential&amp;nbsp;first step, we also believe that it&amp;rsquo;s important to officially validate the knowledge and experience gained from training. To that end, we offer the &lt;a href="/learn/certifications"&gt;Appian Certification Program&lt;/a&gt;. We follow industry standards for development and security to ensure our certifications are reliable and trustworthy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;We brought in Appian experts from around the world under the tutelage of certification experts to help build the foundations of the program. A team of expert practitioners defined the expectations and skills to be measured for developers and analysts and then set about creating exams that validate those skills and expectations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Analyst Certification&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Non-developer team members, such as business analysts, project managers, product owners and UX designers, can benefit from the &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/certified-analyst"&gt;The Appian Certified Analyst exam&lt;/a&gt;. This certification will validate knowledge and training centered around planning successful projects.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Developer Certification&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:400;"&gt;Your developers should start down the developer certification pathway, which includes &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/associate-developer"&gt;Associate Developer&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/senior-developer"&gt;Senior Developer&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="/learn/certifications/p/lead-developer"&gt;Lead Developer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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