Cutting Waste Requires Discipline
Friday, 05 August 2011 16:20 | 
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Cutting waste is a longtime sport in Washington. President Obama's June 13, 2011 Executive Order on “Delivering and Efficient, Effective, and Accountable Government” has many powerful drivers. Two of the most apparent are the volume of the government’s economic recovery efforts and eliminating poorly performing projects. In the executive order, the President specifically calls out information technology (IT) projects. Effectively cutting waste requires project management discipline, especially in complicated IT efforts.
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Virtual Program Leadership
Friday, 05 August 2011 16:18 | | |
Virtual programs work on the edge of complexity. The program manager hardly ever (or never) sees the program team and may not even communicate with some of its members; some team members work on areas that may be invisible to the program manager, except through schedule and status reports.
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The New Triple Constraint™: Population, Climate Change, and EnergyFriday, 05 August 2011 16:17 | | |
How well-informed are federal project and program managers about the issues of population, climate change, and energy? We are bombarded with sound bites on the topics every day, but they often seem to be contradictory and most people just treat them as background noise. Yet, the decades of the 2010s and especially the 2020s and beyond are potentially periods of great opportunity as well as great stress and threat arising from unique and dramatic changes in population, climate, and energy availability. The demographic, economic, and geopolitical impacts are expected to be considerable and variable. Want to see the whole article? Click here to subscribe or click here to register for a free 30-day trial.
Audit ReportFriday, 05 August 2011 16:13 | | |
DoD needs to better understand its technical data needs, GAO says. Some of the Department of Defense’s (DoD) weapon systems remain in the inventory for decades. Therefore, not acquiring rights to the technical data used in building the system can have far-reaching implications for DoD’s ability to sustain and procure parts and services. GAO says that DoD needs access to technical data to control costs, maintain flexibility in acquisition and sustainment, and maintain and operate systems.
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Commission outlines unique project consideration: Project sustainment in AfghanistanFriday, 05 August 2011 16:14 | | |
The Commission on Wartime Contracting (CWC) raised new concerns over the sustainability of projects funded with taxpayer dollars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The new report, “Sustainability: Hidden Costs Risk New Waste,” highlights examples of numerous and expensive federal projects that show little promise of being fully utilized once handed over to the governments of Iraq or Afghanistan. As the administration continues to contemplate troop drawdown and timelines for withdrawal, the CWC is urging federal officials to consider exactly how many of the ongoing or completed projects will be utilized once American presence diminishes.
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Improving your organization’s ethicsFriday, 05 August 2011 16:10 | | |
If you notice an ethical problem at your company, there is probably something proactive you can do to help try to fix it. What if there are, for instance, microinequities in the way the team works with its outsourced staff?
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