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It's ASPE's goal to provide our customers with tools, resources, and “toys” that make it easier to be a technology professional.
Check out this page every few weeks to discover the new white papers, free subscriptions, job aids, gizmos, and gadgets we're offering.
It's fundamental: the world of technology continues to get more complex, from planning and design to administration and operations. It's the nature of technology itself. But that complexity breeds opportunities as well as challenges, and that's one of the pillars our business has been built on. ASPE strives to help you tap the opportunities and meet the challenges through our curriculum of advanced technology training, as well as through these special offers. These freebies are about fun, but they're also about giving you tools and information to help you be successful.
DOWNLOAD INSTRUCTIONS: Our free offers are split into two curriculums: 1) Software Development Life Cycle and 2) Information Technology. To receive them, click on a fee offer link and complete the appropriate form. If you are interested in offers in both curriculums, you will need to complete two forms. Upon completion of the appropriate form, you will be immediately taken to a download page where you can download the offers you wish to obtain.
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Software Development Life Cycle offers:
- NEW! — The Agile Glossary of Terms
- Lean Meets Agile Software Development & Project Management
- White Paper: Deploying Scrum - From Zero to Eighteen in Six Weeks!
- Scrum Introduction, Overview, and Training Preparation
- White Paper: Agile Requirements by Kenneth Pugh
- User Survey for Requirements Metrics
- NEW! — The Critical Skills You Need to be a Marketable and Indispensable SDLC Professional in 2009
- Using Rich Definitions to Improve Customer Communication
- Global Star Certification (GSC) - Measuring Outsourcing Viability
- Use Case Documentation for Software Testing and Quality Assurance Professionals
- Documentation on Requirements-Gathering in Software Development
- An Analyst's Requirements Elicitation Toolkit
- White Paper: Measuring Business Analyst Impact
- NEW! — Learn How to Set Up and Run a Project Management Office (from TenStep)
- NEW! — Minimizing the Risk Associated with Project Rescue (from TenStep)
- NEW! — Unleash the Value of Project Management in Your Organization (from TenStep)
- NEW! — The Case for Applied Project Management
- A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), 4th edition
- Using Microsoft SharePoint for Project Management
- The Critical Skills You Need to be a Marketable and Indispensable SDLC Professional in 2009
- Outsourcing Economic Crisis Report IIOM
- Retrosourcing a Safety Net for Outsourcing Engagements
- Project Template Mini-Handbook — Templates, Tools, and Organizational Aids
- Virtual Teams / Virtual Meetings
- Improving Customer Satisfaction
- Holodeck Software Testing: A 15-Day Trial
- White Paper: The Top 10 Automation Scripting Mistakes
- An SI, Inc. White Paper: White box Security Testing Using Code Scanning
- An SI, Inc. White Paper: Secure Software Begins in the Development Process
- An SI, Inc. White Paper: Duct Tape, Band-Aids and Bubble Gum Shouldn’t Be Used to Build Security
- An SI, Inc. White Paper: Future Test: Making Security More than Just an Afterthought
Learn How to Set Up and Run a Project Management Office
A project management office (PMO) is a powerful asset in any organization that counts on dependable project success. This white paper from TenStep covers the basics and shows you how to move forward in the implementation of a PMO in your own organization.
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Minimizing the Risk Associated with Project Rescue
Project rescues are not for the faint of heart and they are not appropriate for the typical project that is having typical problems. However, if you have a large and important project that is off the rails, it might be time for this radical intervention.
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Unleash the Value of Project Management in Your Organization
Deploying common project management practices is going to be different from company to company because every company has a unique culture and unique problems. However, the general value proposition for project management is described in this white paper.
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The Case for Applied Project Management
Too often project management methodologies become academic and theoretical, with a skewed focus placed on formulas and tools that may not map to your real-world situation. In this brief white paper, a real-world PMP who has guided thousands of students to the achievement of their own PMP credential takes a look at how a project manager can keep his skills useful in an everyday setting.
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A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), 4th edition
The 4th edition of A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (popularly known as the PMBOK) was issued in 2008 and PMP examinations based upon this edition will begin on July 1, 2009. As the source for the overwhelming majority of the material covered on the test, it is imperative for prospective PMPs who have some familiarity with the older 3rd edition to retool their thinking to bring it in line with the changed text. Likewise, current PMPs who tested on the 3rd edition should make themselves aware of the changes in order to stay current with the process terminology that will soon follow in organizations that wish to be fully PMBOK compliant.
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Using Microsoft SharePoint for Project Management
A modern Project Management Information System (PMIS) is a collaborative solution that allows for the management of projects and the documentation and processes associated with them. Dozens of solutions exist, however, if you have implemented Microsoft SharePoint or plan to implement it, you may already have one of the best PMIS solutions available today.
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User Survey for Requirements Metrics
Help ensure the success of your projects by recording critical user feedback with easy-to-use quality metrics. Our user survey gives you the most important questions you should be asking to make sure you got things right.
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The Critical Skills You Need to be a Marketable and Indispensable SDLC Professional in 2009
With 2009 shaping up to be a difficult year, professionals will need to be more innovative than ever to gain an edge. This extensive essay investigates and outlines some valuable approaches that will set you up for success in the new year.
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Outsourcing Economic Crisis Report IIOM
Among the many challenges in requirements development is the need to understand a customer’s goals and enterprise requirements. This entails understanding the customer’s words, both spoken and written. This paper describes rich definitions and shows their value in providing clear, precise-enough, contextual definitions of customer terminology.
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Retrosourcing — a Safety Net for Outsourcing Engagements
The game of outsourcing, whether offshore, nearshore, onshore, staff augmentation, service delivery or project driven frameworks will change. This is a certainty and not a prediction because of the level of change that is taking place. The rule book is and will remain in a state of change for many months, if not years to come.
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Using Rich Definitions to Improve Customer Communication
Among the many challenges in requirements development is the need to understand a customer’s goals and enterprise requirements. This entails understanding the customer’s words, both spoken and written. This paper describes rich definitions and shows their value in providing clear, precise-enough, contextual definitions of customer terminology.
Complete the short form to download the quick tips
Global Star Certification (GSC) - Measuring Outsourcing Viability
Before there was such a thing as outsourcing, client companies utilized "service providers", companies who delivered specific information technology services. Clients often applied inconsistent review and examination methods that lead to numerous issues that often culminated in project failures. It became apparent in later years that these shortcomings resulted in catastrophic results that centered around the viability and delivery capacity of the service provider.
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Lean Meets Agile Software Development and Project Management
This white paper discusses the roots of agile thinking in terms of the modern quality evolution, which has been exemplified in the Toyota Production System (TPS). In viewing TSP as the ultimate Lean implementation, we see similarities to Toyota’s TPS, the Agile Manifesto, and Agile Principles. This will explore why agile approaches will become the primary method for developing software and managing projects within the next five years.
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Catalog Quick Tips
The ASPE 2007/2008 catalog is full to the brim with great tips in every curriculum area! Why not get them all in one convenient location, so you have them at your disposal when you hand the catalog to your manager or technical staff.
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White Paper: Measuring Business Analyst Impact
Currently, most business analysis positions lack standard metrics that enable value measurement. If the BA position is to gain and maintain the foothold necessary for solid IT/business alignment, standard metrics must be defined.
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White Paper: Improving Customer Satisfaction
Customers must receive professional quality, service and support. This combination will help ensure your recognition and success as the leader in your industry. Customer “problems” can be managed more efficiently when your employees have the proper tools.
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White Paper: Virtual Teams / Virtual Meetings
An overview of remote meeting benefits, issues, and disadvantages, with links to free resources and tools.
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An SI, Inc. White Paper: White box Security Testing Using Code Scanning
White box testing is notoriously difficult to do. Without automatic code scanning tools, scanning the source code requires a keen eye, concentration and an enormous amount of time to scan each line for security vulnerabilities. As hackers become more sophisticated at finding security vulnerabilities and writing exploitative code, it becomes more necessary to take every precaution before shipping software.These precautions can range from security training throughout the security development lifecycle (SDLC) to using tools such as source code scanners and vulnerability scanners.
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An SI, Inc. White Paper: Secure Software Begins in the Development Process
Deployed software is continuously under misuse or attack. Whether it’s an internal application or a public-facing website, software vulnerabilities cause headaches for both the teams that build applications and the teams that manage them. Though there are many risk mitigation options for the software management lifecycle (firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems, etc.) these don’t address the root cause of the problem– a software development lifecycle that is not integrating security at each phase.
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An SI, Inc. White Paper: Duct Tape, Band-Aids and Bubble Gum Shouldn’t Be Used to Build Security
When software development teams begin to think about security early in the SDLC, it reforms our ideas of what our software will look like and gives us flexibility to address the concerns of not only security, but performance, usability, reliability, maintainability and many other important metrics. It’s only when we attempt to tack on security three weeks before the ship date that it becomes impossible.
An SI, Inc. White Paper: Future Test: Making Security More than Just an Afterthought
Enrollment in Computer Science as a major has declined in the US to only 1.1% of all majors last year, down from 3.7 the year before. This is largely because of all our outsourcing to other countries, a fine trend; however, it does necessitate the retention of qualified testing and assessment capabilities for companies who outsource development. And unlike functionality or performance, security is a critical component to software testing – if you ship with a product that’s difficult to use or has poor performance, your users may get annoyed; however, if you ship without mind to security you are putting your entire business at risk: you lose profit, customer loyalty, market share, and your executives or company might get sued by someone like the FTC
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“Holodeck” from Security Innovation: a tool for comprehensive simulation, testing, and tuning
ASPE has partnered with SI to provide you with a 15-day trial of “Holodeck.” Holodeck is a unique testing tool that uses fault simulation to emulate real-world application and system errors. This allows testers and developers to work in a controlled, repeatable environment to analyze and debug error-handling code in hostile environments — ideal for adept testers that need to understand the underpinnings of their applications for reliability testing. You can cover more code, hit more error conditions, and gain confidence in the reliability of your code. Applications that stand up to Holodeck attacks are by definition not fragile. For more information, visit SI’s Holodeck data sheet.
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White Paper: The Top 10 Automation Scripting Mistakes
As he pinpoints and gives remedies for the top 10 automation scripting pitfalls, Jerry Durant shows us that the top 10 actually include a few more besides.
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White Paper: Deploying Scrum - From Zero to 18 in Six Weeks
Get an in-depth white paper on how you can successfully deploy Scrum by Certified ScrumMaster and Certified ScrumMaster Instructor Peter Borsella.
Please fill out our short form to download “From Zero to 18 in Six Weeks”
Scrum Introduction, Overview, and Training Preparation
The Scrum methodology name, which is a based on Agile principals, comes from Rugby. Scrum is taking Software/Application Development departments by storm but do you even know what it is. This article gives you a very clear and concise picture of Scrum and gives you the necessary information to prep to take the Scrum Master Certification course.
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“Agile Requirements” — a white paper prepared for ASPE Technology by Kenneth Pugh
Agile Software Development is a high-octane, high-efficiency model for building the applications your users require as quickly as possible without compromising quality. ASPE has partnered with JOLT award winning author and Agile Alliance member Ken Pugh to bring you the following exclusive white paper on Agile Requirements.
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Use Case Documentation
Get your free use case documentation. Included in this set of documentation is a white paper introducing you to use cases, and another discussing the dangers of employing use cases as test cases. You'll also get a list of common mistakes in use case development AND a step-by-step procedure for building use cases.
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Documentation on Requirements-Gathering in Software Development
For every $1 NOT spent to gather correct requirements, up to $200 must be spent to fix the resulting errors. Gathering and executing on the requirements for your software development projects is a critical success factor. Get this free set of documentation on business requirements and start building a successful requirements process for your projects
Please fill out our short form to download “Documentation on Requirements-Gathering in Software Development”
An Analyst's Requirements Toolkit — what every analyst must have to successfully elicit requirements
Discover this useful introduction to samples of the tools, techniques, and strategies available to analysts who must elicit requirements from business stakeholders. You'll see overall strategies analysts can use during a project. You'll examine a variety of tools and techniques, understand when it's appropriate to use which tool, and learn the advantages and disadvantages of each.
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The Project Template Mini-Handbook
This is a collection of core tools to assist anyone involved in project management. Compiled by one of ASPE's PMI experts, this document contains tracking tools, documentation forms for stakeholders, organizational templates, and more.
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The Agile Glossary of Terms
Use this handy reference to quickly get up to speed (or just brush up) on industry-standard Agile terminology. Good communication among your team members depends on everyone working from the same definitions!
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