VoltDB is a company fielding a technology designed by DBMS pioneer Mike Stonebreaker. It is designed to address challenges of performance limitations in existing systems, and also provides significant potential cost savings, giving it the virtuous position of having more functionality at a lower cost. In conversations with Stonebreaker I learned a bit more aboutRead… Read more »
Hi Josh, I’m a college student majoring in Project Management. I have been involved in a few projects in my lifetime, but never in any lead positions, so I don’t have experience in actual project management. This article was excellent. I find that I share characteristics with more than one of your PM examples. IRead… Read more »
It’s late Monday morning when your computer security department notices that a suspicious message has been emailed to most of the email addresses at your company. It contains a malicious PDF that exploits a new vulnerability that came out over the weekend. The patch hasn’t been applied to the company workstations yet, and it’s tooRead… Read more »
Two of the stumbling blocks to expanding the use of collaborative networks in government are: how do you figure out what works? And, how do you create accountability? The IBM Center has sponsored a series of reports in different policy arenas over the past decade that look at the creation and use of collaborative networksRead… Read more »
Please visit my blog at http://ephraimfeig.wordpress.com What do you do when things are deteriorating, service delivery costs are increasing, workers are getting more pressured and frustrated, an avalanche of retirements is looming, workloads are increasing, budgets are getting squeezed, and the more you try to fix things the worse they get? What if you alsoRead… Read more »
One of our speaker’s from next week’s Next Generation of Government Summit– Fred Dust of IDEO, was featured yesterday in a Huffington Post article entitled “Obama Administration Pushes Forward on Innovation Throughout Agencies” Favorite
Steve Tkalcevich is a member of the Lakeshore, Ontario chapter of PMI in Canada. His chapter partnered with another community organization to do something great. He gained some great experience, and is continuing to volunteer. In an email exchange I recently had with Steve, he said: I am now volunteering with a local art galleryRead… Read more »
This Big City tries to apply the lessons of consumer-demand services like Groupon and Living Social to transportation planning. These programs are based on the economic concept of market equilibrium, or the intersection of supply and demand. Translating this concept from consumer goods to transit services, the post asks the following: Why not take theRead… Read more »
This is my twice yearly public service blog about Restaurant Week in DC (August 15 – 21). Do you take advantage of this? Restaurant Week takes place twice a year, once in the frigid cold of the post-holidays and then again in the dog days of August. Times when diners are likely to be few.Read… Read more »
Years ago I was ‘invited’ to a weekly staff meeting at 8:00 AM Monday mornings. Eight people in a room for an hour – the equivalent of a person-day of time invested. Don’t get me wrong – the meeting had useful, even important content and we all heard it together (the donuts were fresh too).Read… Read more »