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Tech guns for hire: 5 places to find skilled IT contractors

Need outside help for your next IT project? It's easy to hire tech freelancers online, but how do you separate the wheat from the chaff? Here are the resources and tips you need to know about.

The Grill: TASC CIO Barbie Bigelow

CIO Barbie Bigelow led the effort to build an IT organization and infrastructure from scratch when the TASC systems engineering operation was spun off from Northrop Grumman. Her team completed the cutover in just under 12 months.

Paul Glen: We techies can put users on edge

When we hear a good idea, we often start to explore its edges until we find an exception that we then just have to blurt out. Surprise! Users hate that. Insider (registration required)

Career advice: Careers in the cloud

P100 IT Leader Allan Hackney also has advice on abandoning IT, résumé writing and more.

Turning Long Demands Into a Short List

IT is under pressure to get more agile in its delivery methods and pursue flexible prioritization strategies to work with, not against, the burgeoning needs of the business.

One CIO's Answer for Improving Healthcare IT

How Yale New Haven Health's CIO tackled integrating three IT systems into one while keeping customer care front and center

Governance at the speed of change

The right approach to governance -- using real-time metrics -- can enable more reliable applications, more agile IT, more satisfied business owners and, ultimately, happier customers. Insider (registration required)

Life with a large cloud: Lessons learned

IT leaders who already manage large clouds have advice for those just getting started. Here's one of the most important tips: Don't forget the training and personnel issues.

Is Your Cloud Project Ready to be Agile?

Agile development and the cloud are like hand in glove. But Agile can be dangerous if your organization isn't ready for it. Here are some questions you need to consider to determine if your IT organization is seriously ready to implement Agile.

Prioritizing tech projects: How managers make a short list of long demands

IT is under pressure to get more agile in its delivery methods and pursue flexible prioritization strategies to work with, not against, the burgeoning needs of business.

Paul Glen: The 'Low Affect' Effect

Business people expect their colleagues to express enthusiasm openly, and they don't recognize hard work as an expression of commitment to their goals.

Self-service IT

Sure, today's end users are pretty tech-savvy, but do they have the technical and business chops needed to take full advantage of self-service technologies?

Paul Glen: 'Nothing but the facts' approach just won't work with business people

The reason techies' presentations to business people often bomb is that we make the mistake of believing that they think like we do. (Insider, registration required)

When IT Gets to Play

IT skunk works are alive and well -- not so much as a place to hide experimental projects from a stifling corporate bureaucracy, but as a place to reward hard work, build employee loyalty, breed innovation, learn about risk, conduct pilot projects and educate in this time of rapid-fire tech change.

Ensuring Project Success

Even aggressive plans can succeed if they are grounded in reality.

The New Metrics for CIO Success

Modern CIOs must think more like CEOs about business needs and future strategies.

Career advice: Qualities that could get you hired

Premier 100 IT Leader Dennis Hodges also answers questions on the skills needed in a cloud-dominated world and more.

Talking to the Business: Our Problems, Their Visions

For IT, problems are our life's work, but business people want to avoid them at all costs. Insider (registration required)

Greg Schwartz

Greg Schwartz, CIO at USAA, talks about how mobile is redefining the business, how increased regulation has refocused IT resources, and how USAA is engaging customers through social media.

Windows 7 is on a (slow) roll

The economy has done a number on enterprises' Windows 7 deployment plans. If you're behind, take heart -- you're not alone.