In a previous post at this blog, we discussed the emergence of information technology training programs specifically geared toward the poor and disenfranchised. We also suggested that the first instances of these programs represented a growing trend that would provide substantial opportunities for training and development specialists and for supplemental, online IT training consultancies in … Read More
General Lessons from Specific Articles on Information Technology Training
The higher education technology website eCampus News recently ran an article detailing Information Technology Infrastructure Library with an emphasis on how it has been utilized by Ohio State University to, in the author’s terms, bring order out of chaos for its IT departments. These observations are easily generalizable to most any firm that has initially … Read More
Project Management and Data Analysis: The Overlap of IT Skills
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
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
Online IT Training Could Lead You Directly to a Job
CNN Money recently shared an interesting story from the world of information technology recruitment and job placements. Fair warning: if you’ve ever spent long days searching through job listings only to be frustrated by a lack of opportunities, this story might make you green with envy. It concerns Max Rosett, a data scientist who was … Read More
Look at Emerging IT Projects, not just Current Employer Demands
It’s recently become something of a theme on this blog to highlight some of the potential projects that online information technology training might lead a person toward. That is to say, we’ve been focusing on the existing social problems and consumer demands that have yet to be addressed by information technology. We think this is … Read More
IT Training and Development as a Tool to Help Others Out of Poverty
In a previous blog post, we discussed an essay by Melinda Gates which made the case that technology could be a force for positive social change, if developed and used by capable, earnest hands. It was our hope that the topic would inspire some readers to seek out information technology training for reasons other than … Read More
IT Job Placements: Now for Philosophers and Historians!
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
Secure Scrum, or Traditional Scrum Plus Security?
A recent article at IT World considers questions about the relationship between Agile training, particularly certified scrum master (CSM) and certified scrum product owner (CSPO) training on the one hand, and information technology security on the other. The article points out that researchers at the Munich University of Applied Sciences recently published a paper explaining … Read More
Programmer Analyst Job Description
As with many of the job categories that we feature on this blog, the programmer analyst job description will tend to vary somewhat depending on the industry in which you work and the particular tasks to which you are assigned. As is also true of many of these job categories, the basic list of programmer … Read More