Free Tools and Utilities  

Free Tools and Utilities   What Our Customers Say: "We have had a great experience working with Red Rock Research. Their team has a wealth of experience to draw from as they teach each principal of software development. Their Customer Value Centric approach takes in the whole picture not just part, affording every one involved from owners to coders the information they need to do their job." - Chris Campbell   Executive Vice President   DAKCS Software Systems

The following tools help the software development and management process.  Feel free to download and use them, we just ask that you keep our logo visible in the tools.  We hope they will be as useful to you as they have been to us: Note: Some users have experienced issues trying to download these files.  For this reason we added an option to have our tools emailed directly to you. Agile Development Model Templates Free Agile Software Development Procedures Our Software Development Procedure is a complete procedure for supporting a full-featured software development production.  We encourage its free download and use.  Download File (MS Word.doc) Email file to me Free Agile Development Project Plan Template Our Agile Software Development Project Plan Template is a complete template for supporting a full-featured software development production.  We encourage its free download and use.  Download File (MS Word.doc) Email file to me   Free Agile Software Development Project Timeline Template Our Agile Software Development Project Timeline Template is a Microsoft Project Gantt Chart template for developing a software project.  We encourage its free download and use.  Download File (MS Project.mpp) Email file to me     Free Agile Software Product BackLog Template Our Product Backlog is a Microsoft Excel template for managing the backlog of user stories to complete for each project.  We encourage its free download and use.  Download File (MS Excel.xls) Email file to me SDLC Development Model (Waterfall & Plan-Based) Templates Free SDLC Software Development Procedures Our SDLC Development Procedure is a complete procedure for supporting a full-featured software development production.  We encourage its free download and use.  Download File (MS Word.doc) Email file to me   Free SDLC Development Project Plan Template Our SDLC Software Development Project Plan Template is a complete template for supporting a full-featured software development production.  We encourage its free download and use.  Download File (MS Word.doc) Email file to me   Free Software Requirements Specification Template (SRS) Finally, a quality SRS Template free to download and use!  We feel it is the best template on the internet and hope you enjoy it.  Other sites charge $55 for a simular template.  Ours is free and is the same template we use in our courses.  Download File (MS Word.doc) Email file to me   Free SDLC Software Development Project Timeline Template Our Software Development Project Timeline Template is a Microsoft Project Gantt Chart template for developing a software project.  We encourage its free download and use.  Download File (MS Project.mpp) Email file to me     Free SDLC Software Project WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) Template Our Work Breakdown Structure Template, sometimes called WBS Log, or Project Log, is a Microsoft Excel template for managing the project list of components to complete for each project.  We encourage its free download and use.  Download File (MS Excel.xls) Email file to me Other Great Templates! Free Project Error Tracking Template Our project Error-Log Template is a simple tool used for tracking bugs found during the verification testing process.  We encourage its free download and use.  Download File (MS Excel.xls) Email file to me     Free Employee Leadership Progress Plan Template Our Employee Leadership Progress Plan Template is an employee-evaluation form we make available to help improve the human side software development.  After all, successful software development requires effective strategy, tactics, and people.  We encourage its free download and use.  Download File (MS Word.doc) Email file to me   Software Tools 'Jasper' - Free Function Point Counter Platform independent, and a world-wide standard, function-point counting enables your team to compare estimates for software you are building against a wealth of industry estimation data.  Download File (Windows App.exe) Email file to me     'eErosion' - Free Server Health Monitoring Tool RedRockResearch is pleased to introduce a free server monitoring tool to the public. View performance load on all of your servers together on one screen.  Get alerts when thresholds you configure are breached.  System monitors CPU, Memory usage, Drive space, Windows Services, SQL Server Databases, WebConnections, and more.  System was designed to be simple to install and use, unlike other monitoring tools requiring dedicated hardware,  complex scripting, and knowledge of UNIX. Check it out now...       www.eErosion.com       'StarUML' - Free UML Modeling Tool If you like Rational Rose but don't have the corprate bankroll to purchase it, check out StarUML.  This is an excellent free-ware utility that contains the same core functionality (and some improvements) to the expensive Rational Rose product. Create Use Case diagrams, Activity diagrams, Sequential diagrams, Class diagrams, Deployment diagrams, and may more.  StarUML even generates code into C#,  C++, and J#!  Enjoy.   StarUML