IT professionals - yes we can

From a CompTIA survey (see Infoworld article) I found out that: 1) US IT professionals mostly classify themselves as conservatives (at least more conservative than the general US population), and that 2) they'd split their vote equally between Obama and McCain with Clinton distant third. 1) seems surprising. Wonder if that goes for Europe too. This polls was taken at the beginning of March, things might have changed since then.

Vladimir Tosic's book

Vladimir Tosic of NICTA, Australia is editing a book on "Information Technology Aligned with Business Objectives and Values: Integrating Software Engineering, System Management, and Governance". The book will be be published by IGI in 2009. Find a call for chapter at http://www.nicta.com.au/people/tosicv/igi_book. Deadline for chapter submission is March 31st, 2008.

BDIM 2008 program online

The program of the Third IEEE Workshop on Business-driven IT Management (BDIM '08) is online at http://www.businessdrivenitmanagement.org/bdim2008/program. We will have a keynote address by Prof. Mark Burgess of University College of Oslo, Norway title "Business promises", applying promise theory to IT management.
The rest of the program is divided in four sections on Service Design, Risk, trust, security and economic aspects of BDIM, Service Operations and Continual Service Improvement.
Workshop registration is open at http://www2.dcc.ufmg.br/eventos/noms2008/.