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IPO mania is sweeping across industries like a tidal wave. High-school kids are launching new Internet businesses, while brick and mortar companies spin off e-business ventures. Revenue models may vary, but the goal is to achieve an initial public offering that turns founders and investors into billionaires.
At last week's Cutter Consortium Summit 2000 conference in Boston, Massachusetts, one of the sessions was devoted to recruiting, motivating, and retaining IT professionals. Obviously, the main reason IT managers are thinking about this subject is that the overall unemployment rate in the US is at a 20-year low, and the unemployment rate of IT professionals is nearly zero.
THE PROGRAMMER SHORTAGE:
MORE THAN HALF OF COMPANIES USING JAVA 18 April 2000 by Cutter Consortium
According to a recent e-business study from Cutter Consortium, 51% of companies surveyed are currently using Java. An additional 12% are planning to use Java.
We hear that effective business-IT alignment requires the development of business models. This is the way to ensure that the business drives the technology, not the other way around. The awareness of this requirement is an important step; the second step is to ensure that you develop proper business models. Good business models must comply with some core requisites.
Last week, we discussed several important requirements for developing proper business models. Another crucial issue has to do with the specific modeling methodologies or techniques to use.
During the last decade or so, as software engineers were required to master more complex technologies, our typical response was to know less and less about the business we supported. IT roles became stratified: programmers had to know the technical idiosyncrasies, systems analysts had to know the business idiosyncrasies, and for some period of your career you could be stuck between these two worlds as a programmer-analyst.