Project Management

PMLINK 360

PMLINK 360 is a web development company building web solutions for any industry that can benefit from stakeholder management software. They developed a stakeholder management system to help companies manage stakeholder interaction, increase efficiencies and streamline communications, enabling projects to be delivered on-time, on-budget and in-compliance with industry regulations. They adhere to methodologies based onRead… Read more »

ACS Business Skills Second Access

After making sure I could access the ACS Business Skills On-Line Pilot Program, I thought I should select some courses. Like any student the first thing I did was click on the first link on the web site “My Plan”.The welcome email message had an attachment (“Tips for E-learning”), but this was in hard toRead… Read more »

Poulshock on Legal Knowledge Systems and the Hammurabi Project

Michael Poulshock, Esq., of Stanford University’s CodeX Center for Computers and Law has posted his remarks given at the “Legal Automation” panel at NELIC 2011: The New and Emerging Legal Infrastructures Conference, held 15 April 2011 at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Boalt Hall, in Berkeley, California, USA. The post describes Mr.Read… Read more »

Project of the Week: NHSC Received Recognition for Focus on Program Customer Satisfaction

I was fortunate enough to attend a great event hosted by the Department of Interior’s Federal Consulting Group (FCG) entitled 2011 Government Customer Satisfaction Forum. During this event, FCG unveiled the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ASCI) annual results for the Federal Government and recognized the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) in the Bureau of ClinicianRead… Read more »

The Greatest Danger in Times of Turbulence Isn’t the Turbulence-It is to Act with Yesterday’s Logic

This quote by management guru Peter Drucker is very relevant today. Citizens’ expectations of government have been ratcheted up significantly and utilizing the previously deployed approaches to address constituent’s concerns may no longer be successful. By now you are familiar with the different types of resistors and the strategies that they typically deploy. In theRead… Read more »

The Government Man, the Lawyer and the Donuts

The Government Man is just back from a most enjoyable visit to the Federal Senior Management Conference in Cambridge, MD. I thank the sponsors for the invitation. First a little self promo. My book, Confessions of a Government Man, is now available in all e-book formats as well as paperback. Now for today’s blog, whichRead… Read more »

Blog : Kindness – by Mark Leheney

I’ve adopted a new practice I want to share with you, because it’s making a real difference in my own life, and maybe it could in yours, too. You know the bumper sticker, “Practice random acts of kindness and senseless beauty?” The one some people sneer at? Well, the people who made and display thatRead… Read more »

ACS Business Skills First Access

A few days after the Austrlaian Computer Society told me I was selected as one of the initial students for the pilot is running an ACS Business Skills On-Line Pilot Program. I received an email message with the user-id and password. It was a slight inconvenience that my ACS id and password were not usedRead… Read more »

The Zen of Cultural Change

It is time to move from creating a more open government to sustaining open government. Yes, there is a lot more work to do in making agencies on all levels of government are releasing their data and becoming transparent. Governments have successfully picked the low-hanging fruit of opening up their datasets. It’s now time toRead… Read more »

Free PMP Exam Sample Question

The following PMP Exam Sample Question is taken from http://www.free-pm-exam-questions.com – The answer is at the very bottom: —————————— What is the need for doing a qualitative risk analysis? A) To develop options and actions to enhance opportunities and to reduce threats to project objectives. B) To determine which risk might affect the project. C)Read… Read more »