Budget's PM drive unsuccessful

Despite the Office of Management and Budget's efforts for more than five years to increase the number of federal project managers and improve their skills, a new assessment shows this has not happened, states FCW.

A CIO Council IT Workforce Capability Assessment issued on the organisation's Web site found that the number of respondents who said they are project managers decreased by 3.4% since 2004, and their proficiency in the skills necessary has remained largely unchanged.

"While there are no large gaps for personnel performing [IT] project management functions extensively, specific competencies within the ITPM specialty area remain of concern, such as in capital planning and investment and in project management," the survey stated.

TAP-a-PM has released its services to provide a full range of programme/project management functions to a range of hi-tech industries, according to PRWeb.

The organisation is set up to provide a range of PM needs with experienced and reliable programme and project managers for consulting, contract or permanent roles.

The organisation provides product development life cycle solutions, such as: Development Process and Quality Improvement, Requirements Analysis, and Management of Design, Development, Testing, New Product Introduction, Risk Management, and Project Planning and Tracking.

ResultSpace is the agile application lifecycle management solution that enables software development leaders to realise additional value from their agile investments by aligning executive vision with engineer output, says CM Crossroads.

The solution is purpose-built to provide the tools developers and executives need to drive organisational performance and deliver business results.

With a strong focus on usability and scalability, ResultSpace leverages Sapient's unique delivery approach to provide agile organisations development, planning and analysis tools.