National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association NARFE is hosting two off site seminars, one in Alexandria, VA 8/24/2011 and 8/25/2011 and one in San Antonio, TX 8/23/2011 and 8/24/2011. Go to our website narfe.org/prs, click on pre retitrement seminars and get a overview of our program, you can register and pay for the seminarRead… Read more »
Several legal informatics papers / posters will be presented at dg.o 2011: The 12th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, being held 12-15 June 2011, at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA. Here are the dg.o 2011 legal informatics papers / posters I’ve identified. Tom Bruce is a member of our community.Read… Read more »
As Melbourne’s Metlink (VIC) transitions from the Metcard to the myki card, The Sydney Morning Herald says that some commuters are objecting to the change. “If you are doing a rollout you have to, at some point, push people across, but the big problem is no one really knows whether Metcard is going to continueRead… Read more »
The Project Management Professional (PMP) credential is considered all over the world as a mark of a professional project manager. Employers take the credential into account when recruiting, and it also provides individuals with confidence in their own abilities. However, becoming a PMP requires a pass mark in the exam as well as practical experience,Read… Read more »
The summer heat has arrived in D.C. and we’re sure to have temperatures in the 80s and 90s for the foreseeable future. Inevitably, we’ll all be blasting the air conditioners in our homes, apartments, cars and offices. I know mine is certainly getting a ton of use as we reached 99 degrees in DC yesterday.Read… Read more »
Today I was saddened to read of the passing of Maynard Hill in the Washington Post. Mr. Hill was a pioneer in unmanned aerial vehicles, and set many records for speed, duration, and altitude for radio-controlled aircraft. His most recent was the first trans-Atlantic flight of a model aircraft in 2003. I interviewed Maynard HillRead… Read more »
I’ve been looking at the recently released 2011 A-133 Compliance Supplement and found several items of interest (at least to me) that I thought I would pass along. OMB added a a new element to the core compliance requirements to alert auditors and program officials as to whether the reporting requirements of the Transparency ActRead… Read more »
OK, sorry about that subject line. I don’t really know if you suck at networking or not. But we can all get better at it, and I’d wager that 90% of us really do ‘suck’ at it. But I know some people do, because I get email on a regular basis asking me to doRead… Read more »
The following PMP® exam sample question is taken from The Free PMP Exam Simulator at http://free.pm-exam-simulator.com – The answer is at the very bottom: —————————— Which of the following may be considered as the outputs of performing Quality Assurance? A) Requested changes, recommended corrective actions, organizational process assets, project management plan. B) Requested changes, requestedRead… Read more »
I’ve stated before that the Open Yale Game Theory course is a must watch for anyone interested in thinking more strategically about their work, more specifically I think it can help people working in change management or otherwise trying to incite people to action. Key Concepts: backwards induction, best response and Nash equilibrium One ofRead… Read more »