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Business Skills Project Management Agile and Scrum Professional Development IT Leadership Business Analysis


What's the Value of Business Skills for Technical Professionals?


More than 1,400 CIOs were asked, “In which of the following areas do you think your IT staff could most use improvement?”

 


Skills Pie Graph 

 
The national poll includes responses from more than 1,400 CIOs from a stratified random sample of U.S. companies with 100 or more employees. It was conducted by an independent research firm and developed by Robert Half Technology in May of 2007.


  • Project Management Is Not Enough: 4 Crucial Agile Techniques

    Why you need automated testing, continuous integration, test-driven development and -- yes -- pair programming for agile to be successful.



  • 11 hot skills for 2011

    IT hiring will pick up slightly next year, and talented programmers and project managers will be at the starting line. Computerworld - Christmas came in midsummer for Nicole Thompson, IS director of applications at HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley. Thanks to a federal mandate to implement electronic health records (EHR) systems, she has the funds in her 2011 budget to hire 11 new employees for projects ranging from database analysis and design to wireless device implementation.



  • 10 hard truths IT must learn to accept

    In a perfect world, your network would suffer no downtime and be locked down tight. You'd be in perfect compliance with all government regulations, and your users would all be self-supporting. The cloud would take care of nearly all your infrastructure needs, and there wouldn't be a single device accessing the network you didn't first approve of and control.