This is how we are training our team in Argentina. We read the manuals. There is plenty of documentation around and the functional manuals are available in e-book format. Also for the developers exist the developers section of the documentation (which is quite complete) and the Technical Memento, which does a good job of explaining how to work with OpenERP. And in case it is not enough, developers can grep the code, most of the code is in Python which is quite easy to understand.

Now, for the business analysts, they have to read the functional manuals, all of them if possible. Since business analysts will train the power users in the clients. Clients' users don't need to be trained in every module of OpenERP, you can customize their training.

Hope this helps,

OpenERP Online Functional Trainings are modular: you can purchase 1 day for 1 employee to only follow the topic he needs to know. Search online trainings on www.openerp.com/events

According to the access rights granted to any user, the menu items available to them should contain link(s) directing them to the related documentation (official + inhouse addtions). This feature should also allow each individual user to write/edit/delete his (her) personnal notes.

Additionnally:

• the user could raise questions, then automatically sent to the person in charge of training.
• the user could be be asked to answer a questionnaire (the flowchart is available in OpenErp), stating his(her) level of understanding or effective personnal use of the functions he(she) is entitled to use.
• A dashboard could be setup related to the increasing level of training amongst the users (by department, by menu, etc).

"Empowered" users are key to success!