The business-to-business for-profit training industry has gone through major changes over the last 25 years, but the single biggest disruption has been the Internet. The Internet’s impact has been significant in many ways including asynchronous e-learning, live online training classes, and live online coaching and support to name a few. The single biggest impact of the Internet has been its creation of convenient, accessible and FREE knowledge transfer options. If you are a professional and you need to gain knowledge on a particular topic, all you need to do is bring up Google, Bing or Yahoo and in a few seconds you will find a treasure trove of information aka knowledge available for free.
The livelihood of a training company is based on providing learning; interestingly training companies have lived a long time on making revenue on knowledge transfer. The reality is that revenue is now gone. ASPE understands this and actually feels that providing FREE knowledge to our customers is a core responsibility. We believe our livelihood is based on providing skills transfer not knowledge transfer; we believe it is our job to provide tools, techniques and skills to increase worker productivity. If we do this and do it well, the increases in productivity our services provide, pays for our services. So we embrace the changes in training brought by the Internet, through our own sources for free knowledge, our web seminars and free resources.
One area where we see a huge value with these free resources is Agile Development. Agile software development is a practice that takes skills, tools and techniques to perfect. Agile training is a must for any professional or leader considering Agile methods as an option for their company. The thing about Agile is before you can move to building the skills, tools and techniques to successfully run Agile projects you must understand what Agile is. A very important first step in Agile training is gaining the knowledge on just what it is and what it isn’t. ASPE is excited to offer you a FREE series of training web seminars that will provide you the Agile Training you need to full, understand Agile Methods.
If you go to www.aspe-sdlc.com/webseminars you will get a listing of the full curriculum of Free Agile Training we offer. Topics include entry-level sessions on Why Agile but also include technical topics like Continuous Integration, Test Driven Development, and Pair Programming Advantages. You will get a detailed technical session for 45 minutes with 15 minutes of live question and answer. A number of these sessions offer one PMI PDU for full attendance. These are not marketing sessions, these are Agile training sessions. If you don’t have time during the work day to attend a web seminar, feel free to download one of our white papers or technical resources any time from www.aspe-sdlc.com/offers.
As you move beyond gaining knowledge on Agile and want to begin your path towards Agile skills, tools and techniques development feel free to check out our full curriculum of immersive Agile Training. It is our desire to take you through the full life cycle of Agile empowerment from knowledge retention to skills development to coaching support through to practitioner excellence. We hope you find the Agile Training knowledge resources of value on your path towards Agile success.
