Did you know that scrum accounts for two-thirds of all Agile frameworks currently in use in the professional world? This isn’t coincidental and there’s no reason to think that it’s temporary. The popularity of scrum is only growing, and it can be expected to dominate other Agile methodologies like extreme programming and feature-driven development for … Read More
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How to Deal with IT Employers Hiring Errors
An article by Beth Stackpole at CIO looks into the hiring practices of IT organizations and concludes that many such organizations “may be getting in their own way when it comes to effective strategies for sourcing, screening and hiring IT talent.” She identifies four particular mistakes: maintaining excessively high standards, failing to diversify their hiring … Read More
Ladies: Will You Carry the Banner for All Highly Trained Women in IT?
Did you know that according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there has been an overall decline in the percentage of information technology jobs held by women since that figure hit a peak in the early 90s? That peak of less than 40 percent was surely insufficient considering that women now comprise more than half … Read More
IT Service Management Requires Broad-Based Training
The literature of the IT Service Management Forum declares that: “Providers of IT services can no longer afford to focus on technology and their internal organization; they now have to consider the quality of the services they provide and focus on the relationship with customers.” This is something to keep in mind if you have … Read More
Where Your Colleagues Aren’t Going, That’s Where You Are
Previously on this blog, we talked about how an understanding of the conditions at your company or in your industry can be a major determining factor in deciding upon the types of software training courses, or online IT training courses, or business analyst training you should seek out to put yourself in a position of … Read More
Upcoming: International IT Service Management Conference and Exhibition
Starting the day after Valentine’s Day, you can show your love for the IT industry by attending the 2015 International IT Service Management Conference and Exhibition at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas. Running from February 15 to 18, the conference will feature well over a hundred programs, workshops, and speeches offering advice, insight, and … Read More
Help Firms Recover from Data Overconsumption
Businesses’ emphasis on data has grown steadily and considerable in recent years, leading to what some people regarded as over-consumption of data in 2014. At IT Business Edge, Loraine Lawson predicted that this pattern would lead to a change in 2015, a sort of “data hangover” as businesses come down from the previous year’s data … Read More
Where Your Company’s Going, That’s Where You’re Going
When it comes to planning your training in the IT field – whether it’s business data analyst or project management training, or specific software training courses – it is obviously important to maintain sharp focus on the current status of your career and how that measures up against your long-term goals. But it’s also important … Read More
Immediate Rewards for Business Data Analysis Certification
Good news if you’re considering business analyst training as a stepping stone for your career: there’s a very good chance that the role you play as a business analyst will be paid commensurate with your skills, and not based on arbitrary measures like past experience or the amount of time you’ve been with your current … Read More
Who Benefits from Scrum Training?
At first glance, it might be obvious what sort of person needs to seek out certified scrum master training. You might not immediately think that it’s worthwhile for any member of a scrum team, much less for people who don’t work within the framework of scrum methodology. There’s a specific job title right in the … Read More