Should you learn ITTOs by Heart for the PMP Exam?
Many project managers have successfully passed the PMP exam without any memorization. Here’s what you need to know.
Project Management
In The End Project Management is About Risk Management
This is the last in the series of blogs about project management on federal projects. To wrap up, here’s the most important topic: risk management.
This Govie Has Something to Teach About Project Management
Meet Joseph Seebode, the 2017 SAMMIE’s finalist who’s spent three decades with the Army Corps of Engineers managing massive recovery efforts and other high-impact projects.
How to Reward Star Employees When Money Isn’t an Option
Performance-based reward systems can have significant effects on employee motivation. This sounds simple but is actually very difficult to implement. Learn how you can best reward and motivate your agency’s employees.
Managing Risk as Opportunity
Good risk management is not about fear of failure; it is about removing barriers to success. This is when opportunity management emerges.
3 Reasons You Should Automate Employee Performance Management
There are a number of benefits to automating the employee performance management process. Read them here!
Project Management: Now for the Hard Part
With the principles, practices and processes in place, we need to pull all these together into a coherent program management process.
How Technology is Transforming Performance Management
Many government agencies are still using pencil-and-paper-based performance management systems that simply no longer work. Learn how incorporating technology into your performance management can help.
10 Practices That Implement the 5 Processes and 5 Principles
The 10 practices of project success encompass the entire lifecycle of a project or program, from inception to the creation of the performance measurement baseline. Learn how these 10 practices can improve your project management.
What’s Fair? Managing Perceptions of Performance Management Programs
Agencies use performance management programs to inform employee decisions related to compensation, transfers, promotions and workforce cuts. But sometimes perceptions of the fairness of these programs can affect employee motivation. Learn how you can navigate in your agency.