Employee engagement in the IT sector

The IT industry is facing a major challenge in the area of employee attrition. Every organisation is working on devising new measures to increase retention.

Project: Enterprise software for Dairy Australia

With help from global software development company IFS, Dairy Australia gained full visibility of its project portfolio, optimised its use of resources, consolidated operations, and achieved quicker and more informed decision making.

Queensland budget focuses on IT, infrastructure projects

IT and infrastructure projects will be the focus for Queensland over the next few years with the state budget allocating billions of dollars for technology and infrastructure investments.

Project IPv6: preparing for the new internet

Named World IPv6 Day, June 8 is an awareness day to acknowledge the trillions of new IP addresses now available after the previous version—IPv4—began to show its limitations.

Controlling Attrition in the IT Industry—Dinesh Sharma

The importance of employee engagement in controlling attrition for IT industry scenario: A step-by-step approach

The IT industry is facing a major challenge in the area of employee attrition. Every organization is working on devising new measure to increase retention. This white paper focuses on the importance of employee engagement in controlling attrition. The information would be helpful for all IT managers looking for effective ways to control attrition.

Author: Dinesh Sharma
Review status: Peer reviewed

5 ways to improve IT project cost management

There is plenty of well documented research about how poorly costs are managed on IT projects. Here are 5 ways to improve project estimating and cost management.

Maria Skillern, Tasmania’s project manager

For a self-confessed ‘accidental’ project manager, Maria Skillern has more than what it takes to handle big projects. In the beginning she worked in a large organisation on an IT and change project, and since then has shown her skills in the Tasmanian Government in a variety of roles.

Cloud computing challenges project management

Cloud computing is a very broad term for the ‘IT systems via the internet’ that hold the application technologies they run by an external party. Subscribers do not own IT infrastructure and are charged typically on the basis of per user per month.

Adopting cloud computing could have significant and potentially disruptive implications for project risk and governance frameworks in enterprise IT projects, given the current relative immaturity of this technology, lack of standards, and inconsistencies in the governance frameworks.