Defining Total Cost of Ownership of Government Software – Part I: The “T”

IT purchasing decisions in government have gotten complicated over the last five years. There are more factors that need to be considered than ever. To me, that’s perfectly fine as long as we evaluate the factors correctly. After all, we are asked to invest significant public dollars in our choices, and I want that listRead… Read more »

What Can Government Do To Bridge The Digital Divide and How Can The Private Sector Be A Partner?

In reviewing some past blogs that can be found on www.opengovtv.com, I noticed an interesting article from Gov Loop’s very own Andrew Krzmarzick written June 25, 2010. Andy asks a great question then that is even more important to ask the question 7 months later. As it appears from President Hu Jintao’s recent visit toRead… Read more »

Volunteer flood mapping for Queensland

The MAPS mapping volunteers have posted an interesting report on their work mapping the Queensland floods:… RCQ created a project that involved volunteers from GISCorps and MAPS. This project produced a number of documents which outlined possible scenarios, hardware and software requirements, etc. The GISCorp volunteers also focused on mapping the capacisty of RCQ EmergencyRead… Read more »

Measurement Always Dominates Intuition

Glen Alleman made reference to “Against the gods: The remarkable story of risk” in a previous PM Student post, “How Expectations Mess Up Project Estimates. By trade I work as a PM Analyst and have an EVMS background. Measurements are a primary requirement on projects that utilize the fundamentals of EVM. Even for projects thatRead… Read more »

SLA 2011 Leadership Summit

The SLA 2011 Leadership Summit is taking place in Washington,DC from January 19 – 22nd. The Summit theme is — Future Ready: Building Community. The programs focus on building, expanding, and enhancing our professional communities. One of the things that I find when going to a conference like this is that although the programs areRead… Read more »

Which students succeed at online learning

Johnelle Bryson Welsh’s dissertation “Identifying Factors That Predict Student Success in a Community College Online Distance Learning Course” (2007) while researching US colleges, provides useful insights into students of e-learning courses generally. Demographic variables (such as age and gender) do not effect course results. The online students tend to older, married, worked full-time, and OriginalRead… Read more »

MOOS Project Viewer A Microsoft® Project Viewer Is Available In Italian Language

Starting with version 2.2 MOOS Project Viewer is also available in Italian language. Plus a new important feature was added so that users can now filter tasks by various criteria and get better presentation results. MOOS Project Viewer is a cost saving solution for project stakeholders to view project details in a dynamic way andRead… Read more »