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The Ownership Trait in IT Staffing

In the challenge to find and retain the best employees within an IT organization, there are many recommended practices, from putting developers through a brief coding test, to verifying that project managers posses a solid understanding of accepted methodologies. Prior work experience is matched against the organization’s current challenges, while education and references are checked.
In [...]

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Flying At The Right Level As An IT Leader

Like many other professions, the career path of an IT leader, VP, CTO or CIO usually starts out at a lower level within an organizational hierarchy, and may take many routes. A business analyst fresh out of college moves through the project management ranks, leading larger teams and programs until he is responsible for an [...]

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Effective IT Project Management: I Know It When I See It

IT Project Management seems to be one of the more difficult, etherial roles to pin down and define – there are as many best practices and traits for success as there are people offering those opinions.
Certainly the PMO training, certifications and an understanding (and use) of standard PM methodologies are important, but in many cases [...]

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Time to Review Your Hiring Process

The conventional thinking is that it is easier to add top IT talent to an organization during an economic downturn, as layoffs have forced many good people onto the market, and others are eager to jump ship to any company that is actually growing or doing interesting things in IT.
There are alternative theories out there, [...]

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Boom and Bust in IT Staffing

One of the roles of an IT leader is the job of managing IT staffing (supply) with the needs of the organization (demand), to include infrastructure and support as well as IT investments that will drive innovation, new products and future growth.  Although most leaders have an assumption that their IT organization will become more [...]

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