Project Management

EPP-Kansas City-Team Sprint Center

Team Sprint Center is now coming up with questions for tomorrows site visit. We are currently being assisted by Lou Taylor and Al Tyree. JaDa is looking online researching on AEG and their overall vision, mission, and product. We will be met by Brenda Tinnen, General Manager, and David Pulford, Director of Operations at theRead… Read more »

Thoughts from ELC

Thoughts from ELC A couple weeks back I went to the ACT/IAC Executive Leadership Conference in Williamsburg. It is arguably the premier federal IT conference of the year with over 800 people in attendance. I spoke on two different panels related to collaboration, Gov 2.0, and Gen Y. An interesting note from the questions wasRead… Read more »

Career Advice

I have been working as a project engineer in the energy industry for a number of years and am looking to transition into energy policy. I have recently returned to school to aid in this transition, but am not sure other than DOE EERE where else to look for job opportunities. Also, how do IRead… Read more »

TSP Talk Weekly Wrap Up

Hi everyone – It’s your govloop weekly dose of TSP Talk from www.tsptalk.com. Last week was a volatile week for the stock market and a strong finish on Friday solidified some decent gains for both the major indices, and the TSP stock funds. The C-fund closed up 2.33% for the week. The S-fund gained 1.64%Read… Read more »

Focus on Efficiency Phase 3: Implement and Prepare for Change

A previous post laid out the Focus on Efficiency Framework: Plan – Decide – Implement – Review – Repeat. If you’ve reached this stage, you’ve decided to implement your project. Implementing means just that: Implementing the plans you made back in the Planning phase. You’ll implement using traditional project management techniques like PMBOK or whateverRead… Read more »

No Rain, No Rainbows

Watch closely the first 8 or 9 seconds of this video… …Got it? … No rain, no rainbows? Good. Now, how often as IT are we in that “no rain, no rainbows” guy’s shoes? That poor guy went to a lot of planning, time, and effort to make sure that bride had rainbows on herRead… Read more »

“Collaboration Over Time”

There is a chapter in Keith Sawyer’s Group Genius book titled Collaboration Over Time where Sawyer refers to several inventions and discoveries, including Morse’s first working telegraph line and Darwin’s The Origin of the Species to make the point that: Collaboration makes the mind more creative because working with others gives you new and unexpectedRead… Read more »

Federal Eye: Incorrect long-term care info mailed to gov’t workers

Letters sent to tens of thousands of employees in the Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program contained errors in calculating potential premiums, the Office of Personnel Management announced Friday. The errors mean enrollees now have until March 15, 2010 to review their options and make final decisions on coverage. OPM learned of the errors fromRead… Read more »

Member of the Week: GeekChick

I have never met Geekchick but after reading her comments I found her to be a very interesting person. She is one of those really cool people you can talk to for days about anything and everything. She started one of my favorite groups, Geeks in Government, so what is not to like about thisRead… Read more »