With spending on cost-saving technologies such as virtualization rising, and the maintenance of networking and enterprise Microsoft software keeping IT professionals constantly in demand, here's our top 10 hot skills that will take us from a down economy and beyond. 

In this guide you will learn the most commonly used business analysis and project management terms and it helps you better communicate with business analysis and project management professionals. 

This whitepaper will discuss the various kinds of information technology requirements, their importance, the different requirement types, the concept of requirements engineering and the process for gathering requirements. 

Attend this webcast with Gloria Brown and learn how to prepare for and take the PMP Certification Exam. 

Due to its ability to closely coordinate efforts across all disciplines, requirements management has emerged as a primary driver for quality improvement across product development. This collection of case studies discusses the challenges and payoffs involved in implementing a requirements management solution. 

Agile software development practices have exploded onto the product engineering scene. However when development teams are distributed around the country and around world, a core tenant of Agile is disrupted. The following paper reviews this topic and proposes several areas to focus on to ensure program success. 

Executives, managers, and business users need the ability to quickly discover, collect, analyze, and share relevant information and they need to be able to answer their own questions as they have them. Read this quick report to learn more about a solution that addresses just these needs. 

In this podcast, Fred Richards, Senior Director of Oracle Business Intelligence Applications, discusses how new project analytics tools track your program performance and costs, improve project portfolio performance, and deliver insight into project revenue. 

This paper provides six tools to help increase the value of a PPM solution which include: workflow scheduling, tracking, process improvement analysis, demand management and business intelligence. 

Download this paper to learn how to build an effective dashboard and reporting system that will be based on accurate computation of schedule (and cost) status, using basic Earned Value Analysis methods. 

In a process centric approach to SOA and BPM, perspectives of strategy, systems, business and technology can be incorporated in order to achieve successful change in business processes. Discussed here is methodology, best practices and experiences. 

CollabNet is the standard for on-demand collaborative software development networks. CollabNet software and services help distributed enterprises reduce costs and speed development by bringing their people, ideas, processes, and development partners together in one Web-based collaborative development platform.