Project Management

E-document and Records Management Course Notes

The note for the course “Electronic Document and Records Management” are available. This was first run as COMP7420 an online course the Australian National University, in the Graduate Studies Select Program in February 2011. My intention is to revise the material and expand it from a six to a twelve week full semester course concentratingRead… Read more »

What’s The Goal?

Last weekend I wanted to read “The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement” by Eliyahu M. Goldratt again. It’s been a few years since I had, and it was one of the first books that really helped me to internalize many of the concepts I take for granted today. I was delighted to find itRead… Read more »

Le Métayer et al. on Liability Issues in Software Engineering: Case Study of eSignatures

Daniel Le Métayer of INRIA Grenoble – Rhône-Alpes, and colleagues, have published Liability Issues in Software Engineering: The Use of Formal Methods to Reduce Legal Uncertainties, Communications of the ACM, 54(4), 99-106 (April 2010). Here is the abstract: This paper reports on the results of a multidisciplinary project involving lawyers and computer scientists with theRead… Read more »

New resource comparing ten online idea-generation tools

This week, the National Academy of Public Administration’s Collaboration Project released a resource on stakeholder engagement that I hope will be useful to Govloopers. Tools for Online Idea Generation: A Comparison of Technology Platforms for Public Managers compares ten web-based idea-generation platforms, many of which we have used for various projects, with the intent toRead… Read more »

SLG Business Brief: Litigation, law enforcement and lighter electricity bills

Litigious is the word this week. And human services technology is both the plaintiff and the defendant, the winner and the loser. Dell thinks its new mobile forensics solution is pretty sweet; IBM has struck yet another deal with parts of the New York City government apparatus; and there are some positive (fingers-crossed) health ITRead… Read more »

SLG Business Brief: Litigation, law enforcement and lighter electricity bills

Litigious is the word this week. And human services technology is both the plaintiff and the defendant, the winner and the loser. Dell thinks its new mobile forensics solution is pretty sweet; IBM has struck yet another deal with parts of the New York City government apparatus; and there are some positive (fingers-crossed) health ITRead… Read more »

“People don’t Resist Change. They Resist Being Changed!”

This Peter Senge quote is very appropriate for this week’s post. In last week’s blog we discussed why people typically resist change. (https://www.govloop.com/profiles/blogs/why-do-we-resist-categorizing). In this week’s entry, we take it to the next level by discussing why and how people actually resist change. What barriers and arguments do they use to convince themselves that changeRead… Read more »

The Stress Doc’s Stages of Grief: Discovering Purpose and Possibility in Trying Times

With all the uncertainty and stress in our economic-job climate (not to mention natural and man-made disasters), most of us can use a refresher on how to grapple with loss and change, how to have the courage to both persist and to let go, how to transform the danger into opportunity…how to grow stronger, wiserRead… Read more »

More on e-petitions

Excellent stuff from Fraser Henderson who has published a summary of some research done into the use of e-petition facilities in councils. I’ve embedded the presentation below: Panos & chris overview of e petitioning in english local authorities View more presentations from frazzy123 Fraser also links to some interesting evaluation of the europetition project, whichRead… Read more »