Project Management and Data Analysis: The Overlap of IT Skills

September 28, 2015Project Management, Project Management Training

At the beginning of the month, David Cotgreave of Project Accelerator News wrote an article that we considered interesting because it implicitly made the case for the overlap between two very different categories of online information technology training. As the name of the news source suggests, the article starts from the standpoint of project management … Read More

Scrum Methodology: Still Relevant, Increasingly Versatile

September 24, 2015Certified Scrum Master

At the start of September, CIO contributor Sharon Florentine conducted an interview with Jeff Sutherland, one of the co-inventors of scrum development methodology. You can read it here. But to reduce Sutherland’s comments to their Cliff’s Notes, we’d say that for anyone who’s considering certified scrum master or certified scrum product owner training, the major … Read More

IT Job Placements: Now for Philosophers and Historians!

September 2, 2015IT Placements

Joshua B. Gross recently wrote an excellent and thought-provoking article for the Chronicle of Higher Education. In it he refers to information technology job placements as the “accidental career for Ph.Ds.” He makes a compelling argument, grounded in personal experience, and we recommend that everyone read it, especially if you are worried about a perceived … Read More