How to Set the Perfect Blend of Short- and Long-Term Goals
Planning out your short- and long-term goals and projects can help ensure a steady stream of progress, earn your colleagues’ trust, and contribute to an excellent performance review.
Project Management
Nurturing the Future: Essential Skill Sets for Government Employees in the Age of Generative AI
The emergence of generative AI raises important personnel questions: What skill sets do government agencies need to hire or develop? And how can answer engines remove some technical burdens?
5 Pitfalls of Digital Transformation (and how to avoid them)
It feels like everybody’s in the midst of a digital transformation these days. I had the privilege of having a front-row seat to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs successful transformation when I was its Chief Technology Officer and have since served as a crisis engineer on many failing digital transformations. Here are five pitfallsRead… Read more »
5 Ways to Work Down Your Backlog
In government, tasks and processes can easily become backlogged, but there are five strategies to help you scale down the growing pile of work.
5 Ways to Work With Your Mainframe
Despite talk about the importance of completely replacing agency mainframes, there actually are five ways to make mainframes work for you, explains a GovLoop featured contributor.
Acquisition Team — An “Overdue” Innovation?
The thoughtful creation of agency acquisition teams is an innovative way to ensure that acquisition policies, practices and attitudes lead to timely mission success.
5 Strategies to Get What You Want at Your Next Meeting
Getting the result you want from a meeting requires some pre-meeting strategy, not extemporaneous speeches. Here are five ways to secure the meeting outcomes you want.
How Do We Know When to Make a Decision?
Making decisions can be difficult, but you can help guide your agency and organize your calendar by considering the relevant urgency and importance of particular choices.
The NAICS Procurement Code: Getting It Right
A seemingly innocuous 6-digit NAICS procurement code should be more than an afterthought. It has big implications for federal agencies and acquisition teams, especially when seeking out small business entities.
Firm-Fixed-Price Contracts — What Could Go Wrong?
Federal regulations prefer that agencies use firm-fixed-price (FFP) contracts, which place all performance costs and risks on the contractor. That may sound like a good thing but, in practice, the FFP approach can be a problem.