The Critical Skills You Need to Marketable & Indispensable in 2009

This week we unveiled the latest whitepaper from ASPE. The Critical Skills You Need to be Marketable & Indispensable in 2009 is focused around helping individuals in the Systems/Software Development Lifecycle focus their skill set in order to maximize their marketable to new employers or solidify their job security in 2009. 

Author, and President of ASPE, David Mantica discusses domain knowledge, business alignment, presentation & communication skills, Agility, and specialized certifications. 

This is a good read for anyone who is concerned with their job security in 2009 (which in reality is most of us) or for anyone who has already fallen victim to the widespread downsizings and layoffs we hear more and more about everyday. 

The whitepaper can currently be found on Agile Journal's website in a number of places, and will be available on our site shortly. 

Holiday Pricing Now Available --- Ends 12/23

For all of you out there trying to gain approval for you next training course or sitting on the fence about a course, we have a pretty sweet deal available if you can get quick approval. 

Right now we are offering Special Holiday Pricing on all of our January courses. Unfortunately, the offer is only available until December 23rd, so you have to act fast. All January sessions are discounted, and you can actually register two people for just over the cost of 1 regular price course. Ask your Training Advisor for details. 

Special Holiday Pricing:

$1295 course, register for $995 or two people for $650 each.

$1395 course, register for $1095 or two people for $700 each.

$1695 course, register for $1350 or two people for $850 each.

$2195 course, register for $1750 or two people for $1100 each.

Call us and ask about the Holiday Pricing for other courses...

December Web Seminars Open for Registration

Our December web seminars are now open for registration. To end the year strongly, we will be holding 3 web seminars in the month of December. If you are looking for PDUs, two of these events will award 1 PDU for attendance.

This month’s topics include:

• Business Analyst/Project Manager Interaction: Real-World Perspective Based on Feedback and Interaction from Multiple Companies – December 9th
• The Critical Skills You Need to be Marketable and Indispensable in 2009 – December 17th 
• The Agile PMP: Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks – December 18th

For details visit aspeevents.webex.com

Exclusive Discount for ASPE Blog Readers

Thanks for supporting ASPE and The ASPE Blog. 

To show our appreciation, below you'll find a special promotional code exclusively offered to ASPE Blog readers. It is good for $300 Off any course taken before the end of the year (12/31/2008). To take advantage of the discount you will have to call your ASPE Training Advisor. It can not be redeemed online. If you do not know your training advisor's number, please call us toll-free at 877-800-5221. Thanks again! Check back regularly for more updates and exclusive offers only on The ASPE Blog. 

The ASPE Blog Exclusive Promotional Code: BLG1208 

*Can not be combined with any other offers. Can not be used for on-sites, Red Hat courses, or the Software Certification course. 

Congratulations to this Year's ASPE Halloween Group Costume Winners

Congratulations to Aileen, Jennifer, & Sarah this year's Halloween Group Contest winners. The individual win was Tim (Dwayne, Sr.) followed closely by Kyle ("Junior"). Chris Reed and Caroline also received votes for best individual costumes. 

Here's a look at all the costumes. For more pictures check out our ASPE Blog Flikr account. 

New Website Launch Promotion

Due to the success of our ASPE-SDLC website launch promotion, we have decided to do a similar promotion for the ASPE-IT site launch. In addition, we have extended the SDLC promotion to run till Decemember. 

Now you can give us feedback on either the new SDLC site or IT site and receive $300 off any course delivered from September through December of 2008.

We look forward to hearing your feedback. 

The ASPE-IT Website is Up and Live

Our New IT training divison website is up and running. We hope the new look and feel will appeal to our IT-folks, while helping to give them a more user-friendly experience. By separating our brands we can now provide you with more relevent information without forcing you to sift through content for our other training divisions.

Have You Seen Our New SDLC Site? Tell us what you think & receive $300 Off.

ASPE has grown by leaps and bounds since its creation in 2004. To better serve our customers we are creating separate brands for our SDLC and IT divisions. As our first step in this transition, we have launched a new SDLC site that focuses solely on our Software Development Lifecycle training curriculums.

Take a look around the new SDLC site and let us know what you think. To show our appreciation we will give you a coupon for $300 Off. For details visit our ASPE SDLC Launch promotion. 

Alexander Hamilton Training Joins the ASPE Family

ASPE is pleased to annouce that we have joined forces with Alexander Hamilton Financial Technologies (AHFT) to offer our customers expanded program offerings in the areas of high-level finance and business. This partnership is built on a common foundation and principles of supplying quality, hands-on training and instruction from the nation's experts in their fields. After years of collaboration, we are excited to join forces to provide a more extensive curriculum -- meeting the training needs of business and technology across the country

Programs offered for Fall of 2008:

• Finance for Non-Financial Executives
• The Financial Modeling & Valuation Boot Camp
• Achieving Hedge Fund Alpha
• Advanced Financial Modeling with Excel

Visit Hamilton Training for more information

ASPE Adds Hands-On SharePoint Development to its SharePoint Curriculum

The newly created Hands-On Microsoft SharePoint Development course will debut in September 2008. The lab intensive, 3-day class will focus on custom workflows, InfoPath forms, the Business Data Catalog, and custom SharePoint applications.You will create real-world workflow templates for SharePoint-based business solutions, and learn how to program against the SharePoint Workflow API, as well as how to integrate input forms using both .ASPX pages and InfoPath forms. 

For more information visit Hands-On Microsoft SharePoint Development.

We also have a full Microsoft SharePoint Curriculum.

Welcome!

Welcome to the newly created ASPE blog. We will be using this blog to keep you up-to-date on the latest news and happenings at ASPE. Check back regularly for updates on new courses, exclusive whitepapers and free offers, as well as special promotions and discounts only available through The ASPE Blog.