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Where to start?

The purpose of this page is give people who are new to IPF a helping hand to build a basic understanding suitable for their role by guiding them around the documentation site.

There are reading lists for: Architects, Developers and Business Analysts as well as a more General reading list.

General

If you’re interested in IPF but not from the viewpoint of an analyst, developer or architect then this is the reading list for you.

An introduction to IPF

What training and certification is available?

How to start your first IPF project

The IPF glossary defines IPF terms, as well as relevant technology and payments terms

Business Analysts

If you’re going to be writing requirements and defining flows on an IPF project, then this is the reading list for you.

An introduction to IPF

What training and certification is available?

How are state machines used in IPF

How to start your first IPF project

The IPF glossary defines IPF terms, as well as relevant technology and payments terms

How to write user stories for an IPF project

BA Domain Specific Language (DSL) self learning tutorial

Keyboard shortcuts when working with DSL

Developers

If you’re going to be writing code to implement requirements on an IPF project then this is the reading list for you.

Read this to understand what IPF is

Read this to explore the Orchestration concepts

Create your first project

The IPF glossary defines IPF terms, as well as relevant technology and payments terms

Learn IPF

How to start your first IPF project

Developer Domain Specific Language (DSL) self learning Tutorial

Keyboard shortcuts when working with DSL

Architects

If you’re going to be designing solutions built with IPF then this is the reading list for you.

An introduction to IPF

What training and certification is available?

The IPF glossary defines IPF terms, as well as relevant technology and payments terms

Architecture home

Operational Data Store architecture

Deployment best practices

How to start your first IPF project