Bill Cleary MIAP is UK Business Manager at Global Knowledge. Unsurprisingly, he has trenchant views on the value of training. His focus here is on software testing. Bill can be contacted at bill.cleary@globalknowledge.net Despite the doom, gloom and despondency have hit the IT industry, demand for professional certification is still buoyant and on the increase. […]

Money Back Offer! The UK networking industry is due for a windfall of at least £300m says tax consultancy The Customs House. Customs and Excise has regarded LAN equipment as telecommunications gear, which is subject to import duty. The Customs House has campaigned to have such kit reclassified as PC peripheral equipment, which is not […]

Allen Woods, MIAP, managing director of JIT Software Ltd and author of a range of organisation modelling and management software writes the second of three articles about a system requirements approach adopted by his company: In the previous article I attempted to argue the case for IS/IT system designers and developers to use current ‘best […]

IAP Consultants’ Register You’ll find a CD with this month’s VSJ that contains data about all IAP members who have asked to be included in our Consultants’ Register. In the past, we’ve always issued this as a printed document and sent it on request to whomever has approached us looking to employ an IT specialist […]

Charles Ross introduced SCALE 21 to us just over a year ago, in March 2001. Since then, he and his team have done a huge amount of work investigating skills in the IT industry and the first pressings of the results were announced at a conference on 11 February (see Work in Progress, November 2001 […]

IR35 If you are a contractor, don’t forget that 19 April is the deadline for informing the Inland Revenue whether you fall under IR35 or not. See Gordon Morrison’s article (Work in Progress, February 2001) for the background. Events The Gartner Symposium at Itxpo in Florence between 8 and 10 April will address how you […]