I wish I could say that the shutdown has affected me just a couple days ago, unfortunately I have been affected long before this could happen. As if situations I faced currently weren’t difficult enough, I have to somehow figure out how my monthly income of $519.00 per month is going to be reduced sinceRead… Read more »
Reaching the end of putting together first of several Modern IT Portfolio Workshops. Will bench check next week . Have a fairly good assessment of major competitive Frameworks from Microsoft, IBM, etc. As expected each these looks at Portfolio Management as a Zero Sum Gain stack ranking algorithm in isolation. However, that was the goalRead… Read more »
It was a bit of a rollercoaster ride last week as there was little progress made in the budget negotiations. We had sold off into the Monday night deadline, but the market surprised a lot of folks by rallying on Tuesday. The back and forth continued and ended with a strong day on Friday. ThisRead… Read more »
Here’s an important heads-up for NCDDers… During a plenary session at the Independent Sector’s annual conference on September 30, 2013, Stephen Heintz, president of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Diana Aviv, president and CEO of Independent Sector, unveiled planning for a “National Purpose Initiative,” an effort to reunite Americans around a common purpose. The projectRead… Read more »
The General Services Administration could reduce the scope of or terminate some existing contracts with the Public Building Service as a result of the government shutdown. Jennifer Smith, PBS acting deputy assistant commissioner for acquisition management, told industry partners in an Oct. 2 letter the lack of a fiscal year 2014 budget has caused aRead… Read more »
The Missile Defense Agency, U.S. Pacific Command and U.S. Navy sailors test-fired a Standard Missile-3 in the Pacific Ocean Thursday with an Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense 4.0. system An SM-3 missile launched from the USS Lake Erie to intercept a target fired from a Kauai, Hawaii-based facility, the Defense Department said Friday. Flight testing startedRead… Read more »
There’s been a lot posted on social media and different news outlets regarding this government shutdown. One of the really interesting articles I came across was one that talked about Australia and what happened in the event of their own government shutdown. When their legislative body wasn’t able to pass a budget they put allRead… Read more »
I read that Jeff Bezos of Amazon makes champions of new projects start by writing an imaginary press release about the benefits of the new project. That’s nice. Then after a while, I understood. This is different from typical development, where you build something and then try to figure out the benefits. By starting withRead… Read more »
Furloughed feds were on display last night at the annual Service to America Medals. The Oscars for federal employees. The Sammies bring together the best and the brightest career employees to honor their work at the annual gala. But this year’s Sammies were marred by the government shutdown. Four of the winners are on furloughRead… Read more »
If you haven’t heard of the Citizens’ Initiative Review before, you should have! We’ve featured it at two of our conferences, and spent a day introducing NCDDers to Healthy Democracy Oregon’s work back in August 2010. Healthy Democracy just won TWO of the core values awards presented at the IAP2 conference in Salt Lake, soRead… Read more »