2009 ITWeb-JCSE Skills Survey
Last year our ICT Skills Survey showed most respondents expected their ICT staff numbers to grow by between 10% and 50%. It also identified a dire shortage of a number of critical ICT skills, but has the recent economic downturn affected this situation?
Now in its second year, the survey targets both individual IT practitioners, who must stay in touch with the market trends and manage their careers, and corporate decision-makers, who are interested in how their organisations compare with the rest of the industry in dealing with skilled resources - how are they recruited, trained, measured and retained?
Don't miss out! Participants are entered into a lucky draw to win a Logitech Squeeze Box valued at R3000, plus stand a chance to receive a special VIP invite for the Breakfast Seminar on 7 October 2009.
To complete the survey, please click here.
Your valuable time and input will be appreciated.
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[26 May 2009]
A South African becomes the 100 000th individual worldwide to be trained in CMMI » More [21 May 2009]
BY PATRICIA PIETERSE , ITWEB JUNIOR JOURNALIST [ Johannesburg, 21 May 2009 ] - At the ITA skills development summit in Midrand this week, Professor Barry Dwolatzky, director of the Johannesburg Centre for Software Engineering (JCSE) at Wits University, said most IT professionals today do not have formal qualifications. » More [18 May 2009]
On May 19, the Information Technology Association (ITA), in conjunction with the JCSE and ITWeb, hosted the Skills Development Summit, to examine the relationship between the IT skills crisis and the world economic crisis. » More [7 May 2009]
Nadia Nortje from the Electrotechnical unit at the dti and project manager for SAVANT is currently conducting research on Corporate Entrepreneurship and Knowledge Management within the ICT and Electronics (Electrotechnical) Sector. » More [27 Mar 2009]
Prof Barry Dwolatzky, Director of the Johannesburg Centre for Software Engineering (JCSE) at Wits University was the only South African delegate at the SEI Software Engineering Process Group. » More [27 Mar 2009]
So far, 2009 has been action-packed, with the JCSE organising/taking part in a number of major events. » More |
8 Jul 2009 [The Wanderers Club] » Register
Have you ever asked yourself how you can improve your ability to plan - knowing how difficult it is to create meaningful estimates? The presentation at this Agile Forum will present an agile approach to planning that provides techniques to estimate the size of work to be delivered. These techniques prioritize the delivery of the highest value items first, and then focus on scheduling the delivery of these items in a sufficient plan. You will discover that planning is not just something that occurs at the start of a project, but is an activity that should continuously be part of the software delivery process.
» More 11 Jun 2009 [IBM, Rivonia Road, Sandton]
There has been a lot of discussion around creating agile solutions, but unless the enterprise space is adequately linked to the solution space through true enterprise disciplines, this dream will remain a pipe dream. The JCSE's Architecture Forum in June featured a talk by Craig Martin from Knotion, who described how the 'enterprise space' and the 'solution space' link together, and how 'enterprise thinking' must drive 'solution thinking' to enable true business agility. The discussion also refered to the use of Archimate, UML and the SOA style to achieve this. » More 19 May 2009 [Bytes Technology Midrand]
In a bid to address the economic and skills crisis, ITA in partnership with JCSE and IT Web as a media partner hosted a Skills Summit on the 19th May at Bytes Technology Group in Midrand. » More 6 May 2009 [SAB World of Beer - 15 President Street, Newtown Cultural Precinct ]
Scrum was the focus of the JCSE's last Agile Forum. Arrie van der Dussen, from the company Kaizania, is one of South Africa's foremost authorities on Scrum. He, together with Lionel Bisschoff also from Kaizania, lead a discussion on what Scrum is. They introduced Scrum as an Agile Project Management framework. Which was followed by an open Q&A discussion around Scrum. » More 8 Apr 2009 [Microsoft Offices, Bryanston]
The launch of the JCSE Architecture Forum was a great success. The Architecture Forum is a community for IT Architecture professionals in the South African industry. » More |
Year Planner
The JCSE offers a variety of events, courses and skills development programs running throughout the year. We've put together a page to see what's on when, so you can take full advantage of our products.