No one is exactly sure what will happen if Congress and the White House fail to raise the debt ceiling by August 2nd, but it might look something like the furloughs at the Federal Aviation Administration. On Saturday, the agency was forced to furlough 4,000 employees until further notice. As the Washington Post reports, federalRead… Read more »
Although generally thought of as a performance appraisal tool, 360-degree feedback has been used as a awareness tool during training–especially Leadership training. When I was involved in training management, I worked with a team of contractors who used 360 feedback as part of the training program we asked them to design and deliver for us.Read… Read more »
Government leaders and managers are increasingly doing business using methods and approaches that differ from the traditional contracts and grants process. Today, government leaders and managers need to know how to use innovative acquisition methods that shorten the lifecycle of a contract, as well as how to leverage new ways of tapping into the privateRead… Read more »
Last week the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority took a major step on its path to a new electronic fare system. A board committee approved a $9 million contract with LTK Engineering Services to manage installation of the system; the full board is expected to vote on Thursday. The $100 million project will allow passengers toRead… Read more »
This week’s episode of The Project Management Podcast: What would you say is the biggest problem on projects today? Is it the ever increasing complexity? Is it project sponsors who are absent? Is it the impossible expectations that our customers have? Robert Szilinksi and Michael Krebs (www.esentri.com and www.social-pm.com) say that it’s neither of these.Read… Read more »
An organizational meeting for UniversalCitation.org will be held 25 July 2011, at the Rutgers Camden Law School. UniversalCitation.org is a new, U.S.-based effort to urge governments to adopt non-proprietary legal citation standards, and to create new technologies that process and output non-proprietary legal citation information. According to the project’s Website, the organizers of this effortRead… Read more »
Networking should be fun, like eating chocolate. Here are a few hints. Jay 1) Job Shadowing — Imagine you’re interested in taking a job in another office at your agency. But you’d like to test the waters before you make the big leap. Shadowing the leaders in that office is a great way to learnRead… Read more »
In our amazingly fast digital world, the collection of data has become very powerful. The power in numbers to help a client operate more efficiently, to help a lawmaker make a critical vote that will impact her constituents in countless ways, or even how an individual buys a car or house – all of theseRead… Read more »
It’s been a great week! Your # 1 Career Challenge I received tons of comments on my Monday post, asking for feedback from the community. Everyone who is getting started in project management should read through the comments thread, as that’s almost a book by itself with the quality and number of questions asked byRead… Read more »
On June 9, 2011, sanofi-aventis U.S. announced the “sanofi-aventis U.S. Innovation Challenge: Data, Design, Diabetes” at the National Institute of Health’s Health Data Initiative Forum. The challenge integrates open data with a human-centered view into diabetes, and will award $220,000 in total prize money. Guest blogger Michele Polz provides details on how this challenge cameRead… Read more »