Skills, knowledge, and tools SDLC professionals need to watch as the second half of 2009 approaches

SharePoint: With well over 100 million licenses SharePoint has become the darling of Microsoft. Since it is a web-based application, it makes users a lot happier as well. Once thought of as purely a collaboration and knowledge management tool, SharePoint is not stretching its tentacles into Project Management, Business Intelligence, Regulatory Compliance and Unified Communications. If you are new to SharePoint check out this primer on the tool.
A SharePoint Workflow Primer

If you are using this tool now check out ASPE-IT’s SharePoint curriculum for a better understanding of the power of this incredible tool.
ASPE-IT

Catch the WAVE: What is WAVE? Well you just have to check out the below link and get a first look. Let’s just say, SharePoint will have a run for its money in 2010.
Google Wave Preview

Managing Virtual teams and Running with Virtual Meetings: Software development, help desk, and customer service positions continue to flow out of organizations and into onshore and offshore service providers. Managing remote teams and dealing with virtual project management is a difficult skill that combines learning, experience and natural ability. Check out this white paper to get helpful tips and techniques to successfully handle virtual management.
Managing Virtual Teams

Sourcing and Managing Outsourced Vendors: It is one thing to manage the virtual team of doers. It is a completely different thing to find and manage the vendor. You have service level agreements, you have to monitor the financial viability of your partner, and you have to ebb and flow with changes in your partners organization. Here are two white papers detailing what you need to know to handle the myriad of changes when dealing with outsourcers.
Sourcing Vendors to provide Outsourced Services
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Outsourcing in a Difficult Economy

Oslo Modeling Language: What is it? Well it is the replacement for UML. It is especially powerful in modeling Service Orientated systems. Take a look at this primer on Oslo.
"Oslo" Developer Center

Requirements Elicitation: Whether the Business Analyst, the Project Manager or the Developer is doing it, you must do requirements right. The skills of requirements elicitation continue to be a major “requirement” for large enterprise organizations. If you work in a software development group or if you are a business professional interfacing with business systems on a day-to-day basis, you need to understand what it means to elicit requirements. Grab this great assortment of tools, techniques, and templates dealing with all things associated with requirements elicitation.
Requirements Toolkit

Web 2.0: It is NOT about the technology of Web 2.0 -- that is the easy stuff. The real difficultly is understanding how to get business value out of Web 2.0 capabilities. Someone, somewhere will find the killer business application for Web 2.0 capabilities and you want to know enough about Web 2.0 to catch the “wave” of this app. The wave pun was intended because you will see it just might be that killer app.
A Web 2.0 Primer