The ITWeb/JCSE IT Skills Survey assesses local ICT skills landscape. The Roundtable held to discuss the results concluded that  the recession and the fact that university graduates are emerging into the job market lacking key skills are the major skills issues.

THE LATEST ITWeb/JCSE skills survey has found that ICT skills priorities have changed slightly over the past year. The 2008 survey showed business intelligence/knowledge management (BI/KM) as the top priority for companies; this year, application development was number one and network infrastructure was second.

The writing of source code in software development doesn't always follow proper processes, which often leads to risks and delays that could have been avoided through better planning and process management.

This is the view of Malcolm Rabson, MD of local software architecture developer, Dariel Solutions.

Tania Van Wyk De Vries, software development manager at Devstream believes that there is no place for mediocrity in IT.  In this Agile Forum she will discuss the key issues that affect her team daily and will talk about the actions they took to address them - and introduce true agility.

Join your fellow IT Architecture professionals in an open-spaces discussion around issues facing the profession and contribute to the Forum programme for 2010.

ICSE provides a world class forum for software engineering professionals from industry, government and academia to hear about and discuss the latest developments, trends and innovations in software engineering.