Course Code: pegaforsa
Duration: 56 hours
Prerequisites:
  • Business application development experience
  • Experience dealing with real-world business processes challenges.
  • Familiarity with project methodologies such as Scrum, RUP or Waterfall.
Overview:

Audience

  • System Architects

In this instructor-lead training, participants will learn:

  • how to develop business applications on the Pega Platform.
  • Pega's rules-based architecture for setting up process flows, UI screens, automated decisions, and properties.
  • how to model real-world business processes.
  • how to enhance the design of the business application.
  • how to configure case and case processing behavior.
  • how to automate decision-making throughout an application
  • how to manage reference data to allow applications to adapt to changing business conditions.
Course Outline:

Introduction

  • Overview
  • Pega Platform and its Features
  • Industry Uses

Pega's Business Application Platform

  • The Pega Platform
  • Principles of application development
  • Best practices and guardrails

Prototyping an Application using Pega Express

  • Designing a case life cycle
  • Assigning work
  • Enforcing service levels
  • Creating user views

Case Design using Designer Studio

  • Requirements management
  • Managing case life cycle exceptions
  • Adding optional business process events
  • Sending correspondence
  • Guiding users through a business process
  • Designing complex process flows

Report Planning and Design

  • Preparing Your Data for Reporting
  • Building Business Reports

Application Design

  • The role of the system architect
  • The building blocks of a Pega application
  • Accessing applications
  • Assessing guardrail compliance

Case Design

  • Creating cases and child cases
  • Temporary cases
  • Searching for duplicate cases

Data Model Design

  • Data elements in Pega applications
  • Setting property values automatically
  • Setting property values declaratively
  • Passing data to another case
  • Reviewing application data

Process Design

  • Activities
  • Configuring a work party
  • Configuring a service level agreement
  • Routing assignments
  • Configuring correspondence
  • Circumstancing rules

Decision Design

  • Automated decisions in Pega applications
  • Configuring when rules
  • Configuring decision tables and decision trees

UI Design

  • Customizing a user portal
  • Designing a mobile-ready application
  • Customizing the look and feel of an application

Report Design

  • Creating reports
  • Optimizing report data

Data Management

  • Caching data with data pages
  • Managing reference data
  • Integration in Pega applications
  • Creating a connector

Application Debugging

  • Reviewing log files
  • Unit testing rules
  • Analyzing application performance

Closing Remarks