Introduction Making 60 Knots at Low-Low Tide: Changing Demographics and the IT Workforce Leading Through Today's Turmoil: Strategic IT Human Capital Management Crisis? What Crisis? A Contrarian Perspective Recognizing and Retaining Key Employees: SRA's STAR Program Can Industry and Academia Collaborate to Meet the Need for Software Engineers? Next Issue Web Engineering Few argue with the notion that Web-based development today is ad hoc. This lack of disciplined processes raises the concern that we may face serious problems in successfully developing, deploying, and maintaining Web-based systems over the long term. Can software engineering principles, concepts, and methods be applied to Web-based application development? Or is trying to apply software engineering principles to Web-based systems the wrong way to achieve high-quality Web applications? Tune in next month as we discuss how the Web changes -- and doesn't change -- the way we build systems. |
CIOs indicate that a shortage of IT talent will be one of their most crucial issues in the coming years, and Cutter Consortium data shows that a lack of skilled people is the primary factor driving outsourcing. In the June 2001 issue of the Cutter IT Journal, we cover the most creative and effective approaches for recruiting talent -- and the most important factors in retention. Check out this issue for a lively debate on "The War for IT Talent," because as Fast Company shouted from its cover earlier this year, "It's the people, stupid!"