Bob Ragsdale

Does a city need both a CIO and CTO? I’m looking for tips to provide to a big city on why they need both – any feedback appreciated https://www.govloop.com/forum/topics/cio-vs-cto-innovation-officer-new-media

Anyone got tips for Denise on establishing an IT PMO office?

https://www.govloop.com/forum/topics/establishing-an-agency-level-it-project-management-ofiice

Curious what folks think of David Fletcher, CTO of Utah, post on setting the tech agenda for 2012 and beyond- https://www.govloop.com/profiles/blogs/setting-the-agenda-for-2012-and-beyond

I got a good question looking for examples of organizational structure of a CIO shop (tips on best ways)- any help appreciated – https://www.govloop.com/forum/topics/what-is-the-organization-structure-to-your-ocio-office

Interesting dialogue – How should IT address business units that build their own apps? https://www.govloop.com/forum/topics/how-should-it-address-line-of-business-users-that-build-their-own

Any advice for a GovLooper who asks “How Does One Become a CIO?” – https://www.govloop.com/profiles/blogs/how-does-one-become-a-cio

Fed CIO Steve VanRoekel wants your feedback on his “Future First” plan:
https://www.govloop.com/forum/topics/federal-cio-vanroekel-asks-how-do-we-put-our-best-future-first-fo
Share it here and we’ll package and get it in his hands…

My thought about their not being able to handle the traffic was that it demonstrated extremely poor planning. You ALWAYS have to plan for traffic, whether it be through the use of CDN or other technology. There are many federal web sites, in house and contracted out, that plan for traffic spikes effectively. It gave off a message that they’re not…[Read more]

USAJOBS.gov relaunched this week and has lots of problems with functionality.Based on notes from OPM, it’s because they are getting 3X more traffic than ever had.Is solution as simple as just getting a CDN like Rackspace, Akamai, Cotendo, AWS to handle the elasticity?