Yearly Archives: 2012

How to Find the Right Organizations For Your Project Management Career

What’s the hardest part of landing a new role to advance your career? I asked this question in a poll recently on the Career in Project Management LinkedIn Group. The top answer was that finding organizations and jobs seems to be the toughest challenge, at least from the people who responded to the poll IRead… Read more »

Online Tutors – The Future of Volunteering to Make a Difference

DC Public Schools has partnered with Innovations in Learning to offer a unique volunteer tutoriing opportunity. You can help a child learn to read in only 30 minutes a week without ever leaving your desk! If you’ve always wanted to volunteer in a meaningful and hassle-free way, but could never find the time, this mayRead… Read more »

How Simple Projects Can Quickly Become Complex

The graph below demonstrates something that every LEGO enthusiast quickly realizes: the more pieces in a set, the greater the number of different types of pieces. The same principle applies to projects: the more tasks needed to create the project product, the greater the variety of tasks. This is the first reason why projects canRead… Read more »

Can a LAMP Shine at your Agency?

Once upon a time, I was working with the CIO’s Architecture Division of a major cabinet level department. We had a major discussion as to why LAMP should be allowed in our Architecture. There were lots of discussions around security and the reliability of Open Source application stack. In the end, it was not approvedRead… Read more »

Retired Federal Employee in Kentucky

Good Morning, I am a retired Federal Employee who worked for the Army Corps of Engineers along the Ohio River at Lock and Dam 50 which was an Old Wicket Lock and Dam. After my retirement I joined NARFE to protect my benefits and to meet other retired Federal Employees in Kentucky. I have beenRead… Read more »