How To Boost Your Career With Successful IT Projects
You, not the IT department, will make or break your project’s success.
Project Management
What Do You Think? – The Last Step in the Innovation Process.
The objective during this step is to explore how ideas might take form in the real world and be successful. It is about building to learn, making prototypes to understand how design solutions might work and testing to see how users experience them. Initial failure and repetition is part of the process and fundamental to… Read more »
Solution Framework – The Sixth Step in the Innovation Process
Careful evaluation of each innovation concept is critical to finding out which concepts ones are the most promising and actually worth pursuing. The strengths and weaknesses of each concept need to be weighed against a set of defined criteria deemed important to the project. This step of the innovation process is about assessing concepts, combining… Read more »
Agile or Not To Agile – Scoot Over Project Management!
What is agile project management?
Exploration – The Fifth Step in the Innovation Process
The methods we use during this step build on the patterns and insights gained from our deep dive into our intent, people and context. Exploring new concepts involves visualizing the future through brainstorming, sketching, prototyping ideas, and storytelling. The temperament for this mode includes balancing creativity, radical ideas and ways of thinking while adhering to… Read more »
How Gov Can Buy Better, Faster and Cheaper
Ready to start innovating your procurement processes but not sure where to start? Check out what the VA is doing to make these processes more effective and efficient.
Program Performance: New Study Highlights Challenges Ahead
37.5% of program-level federal employees interviewed do not have measurable goals or, if they do, these goals have not being communicated to them.
Stop Talking About Yesterday
If I described our work in the present and future, wouldn’t that be more compelling, and interesting? Discussing how we work hard to support the continuous improvement culture, capacity, and results for state government? Yes, yes it would.
The Greatest Management Tool Ever*
A logic model, or log frame, or conceptual framework, is a graphic representation that depicts how an organization’s or program’s goals are related to its inputs, activities, outputs, and outcomes.
How I Launched a Government Website
After about 70 days of interviewing departments, creating content, uploading files, developing online forms and a whole lot of refining, we launched a beta version of the new San Rafael website. Here’s what I learned.