Industry Insights
Why SDN Certification Mattered to Me
This blog first appeared on the Open Networking Foundation website. Doug Marschke’s thoughts on why certification is important, and how you can get an SDN certification. I have been around technical certifications all my life in some way, either by taking exams, or contributing content for them. When I look back at my personal journey…
Read MoreHow IT Trends Affect the Training Industry (Us!)
Which training trends are happening? Which ones seem promising? Which trends require training? What type of training is required? Should we develop courseware? Is this the right time? These are just some of the questions we ask ourselves as the ITpreneurs R&D team. But besides just developing courseware for those trends, do these trends actually…
Read MoreCIO’s Need IT Pros with Communication Skills – Are You Coming to the Rescue?
In many organizations, the IT function has moved from being only a back-office function. It is working alongside the business to drive innovation. Many IT leaders are expecting their teams to have the relevant soft skills to supplement the technical skills of IT professionals. But what are soft skills and how can you help develop…
Read MorePMO’s Journey with DevOps – Part II
We can probably all agree that time flies. Two years ago I wrote a post about the PMO’s future and guess what? That future is now. Two years ago I also advised choosing the right methodology like PRINCE2, Waterfall, Scrum, Agile and Kanban, depending on the requirements of the project. Fast forward two years and…
Read MoreTraining for Cloud Skills: From ITSM to CSM (Cloud Service Management)
Cloud is a recurring theme in IT training at the moment as interest in cloud training has started to accelerate in recent times. Cloud emerged at the top of LinkedIn’s hottest skills in demand 2016 analysis and again during our executive round table – The Most In-Demand IT Skills in 2017. Both spotlighted cloud skills…
Read More10 Ways to Fail with IT Management
Some IT management problems are so easy to solve that it might make you wonder why you didn’t come up with the solution yourself. I’ve been in the IT consulting and training industry for over 30 years and some of the ‘mistakes’ keep just coming back. It’s time to solve them once and for all.…
Read More5 SDN Analogies to Help Make Sense of It
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is clearly the wave of the future, and we are learning that the ability to program packet traffic in a network will be the standard ways networks are managed in the not-too-distant future. Many certified network engineers are dusting off their learning strategies to take in a vendor-neutral, technology-encompassing view of SDN, like…
Read More4 Things an MBA Can & Can’t Teach You about Running Your IT Training Business
As part of my job at ITpreneurs, I speak to many IT training providers, large and small. More often than not they are all looking at ways to improve the way they run their business. As a recent executive MBA graduate from a top-tier European university, I started to reflect on how an MBA mindset…
Read More5 Key Success Factors for Online Learning
To learn online or not to learn online… that is the question. If you think about training programs or academic courses, do you think about sitting in a classroom or lecture hall with fellow students, listening to an instructor? Online Learning – Pros and Cons Of course, traditional classroom style training or lectures still occur, but nowadays…
Read MoreHow to Meet the Growing Demand for Software Testers with ISTQB Training?
Are you also noticing a certain excitement in the area of IT development? I think we all agree that the increasing demand for DevOps and Agile is changing the IT landscape. Development teams are more and more international and cross-functional. Software testing training is therefore not only aimed at training the software testers of the future but…
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