January, 2012

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Web Seminar Recap: Selling Business Analysis in Your Organization

Friday, January 27th, 2012

Recap

We always have a bunch of projects going on. We are amazed when a project is completed and can be used to improve the corporate environment. Our users complain that projects are often turned over to them late with less functionality than they had planned on receiving. Do you have Business Analysts in your organization? Are they allowed to do some of the things that BA’s are supposed to do? Or are they reactionary and constantly being told just to “Get it done!” On Wednesday, January 18th ASPE instructor Greg Reinhart presented the free web seminar “Selling Business Analysis in Your Organization.” In this web seminar, Greg examined what BA’s should be doing, and how they are really a strategic asset to the company.

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The First PMI Agile Certified Practitioners – Seven are ASPE Instructors!

Monday, 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 Curtin, 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. To see our full Agile training curriculum page, please click here.

ASPE 500 – 2011 in Review

Friday, 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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FAQ – The Certified Scrum Developer (CSD) Designation

Friday, January 13th, 2012

by: Tom McGraw, CSM – ASPE Training Advisor, Team Lead

Q. What are the requirements for receiving the Certified Scrum Developer (CSD) designation? Click to continue »

New Changes to the Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Exam Process

Wednesday, 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 »