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Victorian demand for ICT professionals marginally improved during the first half of 2003, "but it is still a buyer's market".
Working out an IT governance scheme when you have 600,000 users in place is a challenge, but stricter project management has been so successful for the Department of Education in Victoria that the government agency is now adopting the same methodology even for non-IT projects.
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