Project management may not be the most exciting job in IT these days, especially when most of the talk about hot IT jobs pertains to software developers, information security professionals and business intelligence analysts. Nevertheless, IT project management remains a stable, lucrative career with opportunities for growth, according to the latest salary survey from the Project Management Institute (PMI).

"We're seeing huge demand for IT project and program managers," says Mark Langley, president and CEO of PMI. "The data in the survey demonstrates that."

Indeed, the median base

Read more: Project Management Salaries Show Earnings Growth, Career Potential

If you have an account with a company whose servers have been hacked, it’s nerve-wracking to wonder whether or not your private data has been leaked onto the Internet. Thankfully, a new Web service seeks to aggregate all the leaked account data on the Internet and make it easy for you to check and see if you’re on the list.

PwnedList (pwnedlist.com) is the brainchild of Alan Puzic, a professional security intelligence researcher partial to a bit of "white-hat" (good-guy) hacker work.

Read more: Was Your Email Account Hacked? PwnedList Can Tell You

Jim Highsmith is somewhat of a luminary in Agile circles. The co-author of the Agile Manifesto, which guides the Agile project management philosophy, is in Australia for the Thoughworks Live conference, which focuses on helping large enterprise be lean and innovative. He spoke with CIO editor, Georgina Swan, about the role adaptive leadership plays.

Swan: Can you give us some background to 'Adaptive Leadership'?

Highsmith: I've been doing this for quite a while, nearly 20 years now. We, the Agile industry, have done a pretty good job at the

Read more: Enterprise agility through adaptive leadership

H-1B workers are better educated than U.S. born workers and earn more, according to a new study by an independent research group.

The report by two economists at the non-partisan Public Policy Institute of California, also found that, on average, H-1B workers are about 10 years younger than U.S. born workers.

The report's findings concerning pay indirectly challenge beliefs about the H-1B program held by backers like Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve.

In a recent column in the Financial Times , Greenspan argued that

Read more: H-1B workers are better paid, more educated, study finds

QlikTech has announced a wealth of new features to its Business Intelligence (BI) platform, QlikView, with the release of version 11.

The new edition of the software introduces social decision-making on its self-service to help business users collaborate to make more informed decisions.

Another major addition into QlikView 11 is comparative analysis made possible with associative search, which enables users to carry out interactive comparison into user-defined groupings.

"Our vision for QlikView 11 builds on the fact that decisions aren't made in

Read more: QlikTech introduces businesses to the social with QlikView 11

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