Written by Laura Daughtry on December 30th, 2011
ASPE is ringing in the new year with our latest BOGO offer to you: When you register before January 31st for any of our currently scheduled training courses, get another seat in the same session FREE! This applies to both our public and virtual courses for the entire year. Just be sure to register before the end of January.
Use code BOGOSDLC at checkout to receive your FREE seat!
Sound too good to be true? Wondering what the catch is?
Well it’s not, and there isn’t one. We know most of our clients get new training budgets at the beginning of the year, and often times find later in the year it’s harder to get approvals. To help, we decided to offer Buy One, Get One training at the beginning of the year to help you lock in your training for the first half of the year. We believe so much in our product that we want you to bring a friend or colleague. One of our company goals in 2012 is to get as many people into ASPE training events as possible. Whether it’s our free web seminar series or special promotions for free seats in classes, we believe that once you experience ASPE and the Real Training difference, you’ll make us your preferred training vendor.
So, take a look at our SDLC curriculum page and find the course that meet your training needs. We look forward to seeing you in the classroom!
Unfortunately, our third party delivered classes are excluded from this offer. They are:
Our courses that include an iPad are also excluded from this offer:
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Written by Katie Cothran on January 16th, 2012
People who took the PMI-ACPSM exam on the first day it piloted back in September finally received their results last week. The great news here at ASPE-SDLC is that seven of our instructors passed and are now PMI Certified Agile Practitioners. Congratulations to: Bill Gaiennie, Andy Painter, Steve Davis, Christy Clement, Ross Curtain, Jacob Anderson and Steve Spearman for being among the first PMI-ACPSM credential holders!
If you’d like to become an Agile Certified Practitioner, those instructors will be teaching our Agile Project Management Certification Workshop across the country in the upcoming months. The official exam is re-launching January 31 in Prometric test centers. To learn more about the process of earning your PMI-ACP credential, you can visit our previous post that outlines the qualifications, PMI’s Agile Certification Explained. Our free web seminars about The Agile PMP and The PMI Agile Certification are also great resources.
Agile methodology has rapidly gained momentum in the past few years among professionals, especially project managers and business analysts. If you’d like to learn more about Agile in general, our Agile Glossary of Terms is a great place to start, along with many other Agile methodology information, in our free offers section.
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Written by Laura Daughtry on January 13th, 2012
In January 2011, we here at ASPE wanted to kick off the new year with a company resolution. What we came up with was a wellness program known as the ASPE 500. Our mission was simple, and all employees had an easy task: walk, run, sprint or crawl and record your miles! We figured it was a refreshing, healthy way of starting 2011 right, and it had its added incentives.
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Written by Traci Lester on January 13th, 2012
By Tom McGraw – ASPE Training Advisor
Q. What are the requirements for receiving the Certified Scrum Developer (CSD) designation? Click to continue »
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Written by Traci Lester on January 4th, 2012
The Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) certification exam process recently transformed to a more rigorous certificate program. The changes to this program include updated content, increased difficulty on the exam and a pass/fail outcome. Previously, all candidates were initially granted Scrum certification regardless of score. Click to continue »
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Written by Traci Lester on December 21st, 2011
Essentials for keeping communication channels open and operating
By Chris Knotts, PMP
Any decent project manager, business analyst, or functional manager knows the value of good communication skills. PMPs are taught that 90% of a project manager’s daily activities relate to communication. It’s almost a cliche that communication skills are a critical part of business, and that you need to be good at it to do good business. But even so, it seems like a lot of times good communication is scarce. Here are a few easy tips to help you be a better communicator and help you do better business. In turn, you’ll achieve higher rates of success in your projects and business efforts. Click to continue »
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Written by Laura Daughtry on December 5th, 2011
Recap
As companies work to migrate their software development approach from Waterfall to Agile, they often begin to discover that the limited set of tools offered by the Agile (or Scrum) framework alone do not satisfy organizational needs. On Tuesday, November 29th ASPE instructor Bill Gaiennie presented the free web seminar “Kanban.” In this web seminar, Bill discussed why larger projects, more teams, and limited resources are often the hallmark and impetus to implement a Lean development approach where value streams and waste elimination drive the creation of better products, more profitable efforts, and fully utilized resource teams.
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