Welcome to the Early Adopters program, designed to boost your team's autonomy when using the OutSystems Platform. This 4 weeks program - delivered in the context of a real life project - focuses on core practices needed so that you can become an expert.
 All Stages
Advanced Topics
Practices
Data Model
Pair Programming One on One  
Continue implementation of the project in a pair-programming fashion.
Audience: Developers
Data Model Review  
Review the data model in order to support good performance (indexes, foreign keys, etc.)
Audience: Developers
Integration
Extension Usage 101  
Introduction to OutSystems advanced development: extensions and their development best practices; how to debug extensions; how to integrate with external databases through extensions; how to use .NET or Java data structures in OutSystems.
Audience: Architects + Developers
Debugging extensionsAuditing from inside ExtensionsHow-to integrate with external databasesHow to use .Net or Java data structures?How to Integrate with WS in a JAVA extension
Performance
Pair Programming One on One  
Continue implementation of the project in a pair-programming fashion.
Audience: Developers
Infrastructure Best Practices Review  
Introduce the infrastructure design and best practices to IT Operations.
Audience: IT Operations
Balanced App Deployment on Highly Loaded FarmsTroubleshooting the Platform Server (.NET)Troubleshooting the Platform Server (JAVA)
Advanced Performance & Scalability 101  
Awareness to Performance & Scalability matters. How the platform enables the infrastructure to scale. Some performance tuning will be showcased, also some common pitfalls and the way they should be addressed.
Audience: IT Operations + Architects
Secrets to Building High Performance AppsPerformance Top 10 Best PracticesHow to have a great Development Environment
Testing
Testing Best Practices  
Introduce some common testing practices. What different approaches exist? Support for automated tests.
Audience: Stakeholders + Developers
Unit Testing FrameworkOutSystems Test AutomatorOutSystems OutCome Testing Tool
Pair Programming One on One  
Continue implementation of the project in a pair-programming fashion.
Audience: Developers
Internal Team Code reviews  
Have the team reviewing the code itself.
Audience: Developers
Code Reviews
Pair Programming One on One  
Continue implementation of the project in a pair-programming fashion.
Audience: Developers
Assisted Code Reviews  
Acceleration trainer will be reviewing each team member's code. Output from this session will be main concerns and problems that need to be tackled in future iterations.
Audience: Developers
Weekly Checkpoint
Internal Team Demo  
Dry run session to prepare for the demo with the stakeholders, showcasing the achievements of the week.
Audience: Developers
Checkpoint  
Team will perform a checkpoint with the project stakeholders, demoing the application and user stories for this delivery.
Audience: Stakeholders + Developers
Checkpoint Review  
Review the demo with the team: what went good, what needs to improve, what were the change requests. Prepare next week.
Audience: Developers