It is hard to find a time in recent history where the budget picture for state and local government looked as bleak as it does now. Faced with a multi-trillion dollar federal budget deficit, credit rating downgrade and shrinking revenues, state and local governments are forced to find ever more creative ways to provide servicesRead… Read more »
Here is a quick follow up on last Friday’s post about sustainability at NASA. In the video below, USA Today interviews Steve Zornetzer, Associate Center Director, NASA Ames – and GOVgreen participant – about NASA’s new ultra-efficient building, and takes us on a brief tour of the construction site. Original post
I get to help people with all kinds of questions about their project management careers, and I absolutely love doing it. I offer and recommend training to teach general project management knowledge, career coaching, and to help with things like PMP certification. But what happens if you fail the PMP exam? It’s Not All PuppyRead… Read more »
okay, look at this photo. Tell me that does not look good: On the left is the classic fish taco from Tacofino, on the right, their halibut special. Both are as good to eat as they look in this photo. Both are pretty minimalist, with the traditional fish taco serving up some lightly fried whiteRead… Read more »
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority announced plans to install wind turbines at two commuter rail stations. Work on the first turbine, to be located near the Kingston station, begins next month. The turbine is expected to generate enough power to cover 65% of the station’s electricity needs, including lighting the train platforms and parking lot.Read… Read more »
Bay Area Rapid Transit (CA) shut down four downtown San Francisco stations on Monday night to disperse a protest over its decision to curtail cell phone access on its platforms last week; Muni services were also affected by the shutdowns. No one was injured or arrested, cell service stayed on, and all stations re-opened byRead… Read more »
This week’s episode of The Project Management Podcast: So far in our PM Podcast Project Leadership Series we have first heard Rick Valerga and Thomas Juli who are both authors on project leadership discuss their leadership models on expectation management and leadership principles. Then we spoke with Andy Kaufman and we learned how to developRead… Read more »
While I certainly empathise with Stil’s incandescence over this, there’s a simple set of assumptions from a customer/user experience basis all the “Stil is an idiot” clown pack here aren’t getting. It simply doesn’t matter whether he/you/I pay for a service or not, if it’s offered up out there in the wild on a basisRead… Read more »
In an experiment on crowdsourcing intelligence, Applied Research Associates, Inc hopes to see if it can build better intelligence collectors and analysts than the CIA produces on “The Farm”, its field academy for clandestine officers, with a tool that bears more resemblance to Facebook’s popular social networking game FarmVille. ARA recently launched the Aggregative ContingentRead… Read more »
Ten winning ideas were announced last week for the NYC BigApps Ideas Challenge. Starting in June, people were encouraged to submit concepts for applications by answering the following question in 140 characters or less: “I want a NYC App that ______.” No programming was required and participants submitted ideas, not functioning apps. Some of theRead… Read more »