Thinking about remote or virtual programming? Ruth Wolfish, Julie Cavender, and Karly Szczepkowski shared tips and insights on remote and virtual presence during the 2011 SLA Leadership Summit session: Building Community – Remote and Virtual Programming. Programming Tips from Ruth Wolfish, SLA Past Chapter Cabinet Chair Pre-program: Keep the program information to the point andRead… Read more »
by Jay Allen (ADL). Jay serves as the Instructional Design Team Lead for the ADL Initiative. Jay retired from the U.S. Coast Guard after flying helicopters for over 16 years and serving as the Coast Guard’s ADL Program Manager. He joined the ADL Initiative after three years as the Department of Homeland Security’s Enterprise LearningRead… Read more »
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that the city will be launching its own internal collaboration community last week. The community will run on Spigit’s crowdsourcing software and represents the largest city project of its type. The Mayor announced the project as part of his State of the City Address. CivSource spoke with SpigitRead… Read more »
Its been a few weeks since I added to my blog, and I swear there is good reason for that. December and January have been very interesting months for me, culminating in the biggest career move I have made to date. When I started working in the public sector a few years ago, I madeRead… Read more »
I’m at DevHouse:DC right now. It’s basically a gathering of the technologically creative and curious among us. People come to build applications and learn. Naturally, I had to come. It also helps that Andy K promoted it on GovLoop. A World Bank employee showed me how his organization is applying open data to project management.Read… Read more »
through the flames Check out my latest article iPhoneography: We’re Just Getting Started. In this short piece for the Pink Line Project, I provide some tips on how to best use your iPhone as a camera (hint: don’t use the flash) and advance the notion that the iPhone is the Polaroid of our age. BookmarkRead… Read more »
IT purchasing decisions in government have gotten complicated over the last five years. There are more factors that need to be considered than ever. To me, that’s perfectly fine as long as we evaluate the factors correctly. After all, we are asked to invest significant public dollars in our choices, and I want that listRead… Read more »
The MAPS mapping volunteers have posted an interesting report on their work mapping the Queensland floods:… RCQ created a project that involved volunteers from GISCorps and MAPS. This project produced a number of documents which outlined possible scenarios, hardware and software requirements, etc. The GISCorp volunteers also focused on mapping the capacisty of RCQ EmergencyRead… Read more »
Glen Alleman made reference to “Against the gods: The remarkable story of risk” in a previous PM Student post, “How Expectations Mess Up Project Estimates. By trade I work as a PM Analyst and have an EVMS background. Measurements are a primary requirement on projects that utilize the fundamentals of EVM. Even for projects thatRead… Read more »
Starting with version 2.2 MOOS Project Viewer is also available in Italian language. Plus a new important feature was added so that users can now filter tasks by various criteria and get better presentation results. MOOS Project Viewer is a cost saving solution for project stakeholders to view project details in a dynamic way andRead… Read more »