Project Management

From Passionate Process to Poetic and Playful Puzzle – Part I: The Art of Reviving and Writing “The Reorg Rag” ™

As I open this essay, please forgive an immodest turn. Upon reading or hearing one of my edgy or catchy phrasings, for example, the title of my book, Practice Safe Stress, or a motivational mantra, such as, “Do know your limits and don’t limit your ‘No’s,” I often receive some verbal or nonverbal sign ofRead… Read more »

The State of the Coast Guard Address… what’s ADM Papp going to say? [opinion]

We’re just around the corner, historically speaking, from the annual State of the Coast Guard Address and though I dare not think to know what ADM Bob Papp may speak about, if only for the fact that there’s an unlimited amount of things that are on his plate, I happened across a great resource givingRead… Read more »

cpsr365

I’ve decided to start a 365 project chronicling small observations and insights that I have in my day to day. It won’t replace my weekly writing (with the exception of today) nor will I be flooding this site (or its feed) with the contents of the 365. I’ll be hosting it on Tumblr: http://cpsr365.tumblr.com IRead… Read more »

Advice from Adam: The Only 3 Questions You’ll Ever Need to Know

For over a year now, I’ve been meeting almost every week with a guy named Adam Schultz and his team at Change & Course. He’s been offering some great insight on how to improve GovLoop and it just dawned on me this week that you’d probably benefit from the lessons I’m learning, too. With thatRead… Read more »

The The Federal Coach: Leading in Times of Uncertainty: An Interview With the FLRA’s Carol Waller Pope

Carol Waller Pope is the chairmanof the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA), which is an independentfederal agency that administers the labor-management relations program for 1.6million federal employees worldwide. Pope is the first FLRA career employee toserve as chairman and has been with the agency since 1980. In this year’s Best Places to Work rankings,the FLRARead… Read more »

Who are the Small Town Open Gov Rockstars we should host on future calls? Tell us below!

For the next few months I’ll be working with Community Matters to host a series of conference calls on Open Government. These calls will specifically focus on implementation of Open Government in cities and towns across the country, and the content of the calls will be driven by the participants. I’m hoping this series isRead… Read more »

The Status Report Puzzle

(Project Performance Management Baseline Reporting) By Randy Tangco, PMP, CSM Abstract When I gave my first project status report, I had a shock. I proudly reported that my project is all green. However, the project sponsor responded by saying, “All green? Are you selling Christmas trees or running a project?” ”What does ‘all green’ mean?”Read… Read more »