Xtra Effort’s current service offering is recruiting Sales, Sales Engineers, and Professional Services people. However, back in February 2001, Xtra Effort was created to help IT departments and software companies hire software developers. 

The rational for change was the 2002 recession’s adverse impact on software developer hiring activity, and the increase in offshore development limited our target market for local permanent placement.  Demand for developers did not match the demand for customer facing roles, at least for full time, permanent placement hiring requirements.

In 2003 Xtra Effort received hiring requirements for Sales and Sales Engineers and we were enthusiastic to create standardized and repeatable best … Continue Reading

CIO Magazine April issue polled CIO’s for their 2010 investment priorities.

 Guess what is the leading initiative?  You guessed it, Cloud Computing, followed by mobile applications and infrastructure, server virtualization, and content/document management.

 Close runner ups are security, CRM, video conferencing, business intelligence, BPM, data management, and SOA.

 I was surprised not to see data storage, but suspect it’s been categorically absorbed by Cloud computing and Server virtualization.

 Despite the improving economy, I guess Service Desk Management, Asset Management, Software development management, Asset Management, portfolio management, change management, configuration management … and all things management are not sufficiently tied to ROI. Their … Continue Reading