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Government Project Management Offices Struggle to Prove Their Value
Monday, September 15, 2014
The project management office (PMO) provides one of the primary organization design strategies for improving not only project and program delivery, but efficiency and accountability. Search...
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GovGirl Assists Governments in Going Social
Monday, September 15, 2014
Creating a social media presence in every part of the organization is one challenge that is absolutely manageable with proper training. She served in municipal government for 10 years and...
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The Difference Between Success and Failure is Effective Project Management
Monday, September 15, 2014
The Public Managers Forum theme this quarter is program and project management, a subject that, while clearly important, is not always something that would move a reader to drop everything...
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Four Actions to Better Integrate Performance With Budget
Monday, September 15, 2014
Connect budget requests with agency goals by providing a range of performance options at different resource allocations. The percentage of federal managers who used performance information...
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Regrets About Open Data? Only That We Didn’t Start Sooner
Monday, September 15, 2014
Sacramentos journey to open data: why they made the decision, what they learned along the way, and plans for the future. Public requests for data are increasing, and local government...
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Been There, Done That: Overcoming the 'Check-the-Box' Training Syndrome
Monday, September 15, 2014
True learning communities help an organization adapt to a changing culture, attract and retain a talented and committed workforce, and embrace innovation. Have your employees ever attended...
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Closing the Project Management Skills Gap in the Federal Government
Monday, September 15, 2014
In 2011, the Chief Human Capital Officers (CHCO) Council and OPM created a joint working group that focused on identifying and closing critical skill gaps in the federal government. The...
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Project Management Challenges in Government
Monday, September 15, 2014
Every project explores new terrain, and uncertainty and risk are a part of the environment from project conceptualization. Government project managers can expect to encounter additional...
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Unlocking the Potential of Federal Project
Monday, September 15, 2014
Shortly after taking office in 2009, the president issued a memorandum on government contracting with a distinct focus on improving key aspects of federal acquisition and strengthening the...
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Project Success: The Basis of the Five Immutable Principles
Monday, September 15, 2014
People in the field talk about the basic tenets of project management. According to A Project Management Dictionary of Terms, a principle can be further defined as: These can be independent...
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Act Like a Director
Monday, September 15, 2014
Often, an acting director will step in. At the U.S. National Arboretum, a 446-acre campus in Washington, D.C., operating under the Agricultural Research Service of the Department of...
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Program Managers in Federal Service: Why They Matter
Monday, September 15, 2014
Program management is an underappreciated art in federal government. Hiring managers often confuse this skill with project management and overemphasize technical expertise and task-oriented...
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Project and Program Management Come into Their Own
Monday, September 15, 2014
In 2011, the Chief Human Capital Officers (CHCO) Council and OPM created a joint working group that focused on identifying and closing critical skill gaps in the federal government. The...
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Partnerships for the Public Good
Monday, September 15, 2014
In their 2013 book The Solution Revolution: How Business, Government, and Social Enterprises Are Teaming Up to Solve Societys Toughest Problems, Eggers and Macmillan of Deloittes...
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Mission Critical Competencies
Monday, September 15, 2014
This issues Forum highlights the program and project management skills gap that is prevalent in the public-sector workforce. It is not enough to just acknowledge the gap federal leaders...
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If Communication Is Common Sense, Why Isn’t it More Common?
Monday, September 15, 2014
Pick a government agency, any government agency, poised to implement a change. It is easy to get caught up in the day-to-day of getting the project done and to set communication aside with...
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Unleashing the Power of Talent Analytics Within the Federal Government
Monday, September 15, 2014
Analytics remains a prime but still relatively untapped tool for HR managers. Nearly 100 government HR and talent management professionals gathered in March 2014 to discuss how talent...
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To Partner or Not to Partner, That Is a Public Manager Question
Monday, September 15, 2014
Public managers may need to rely on little-known nonprofit partners for certain areas of service delivery. One of the consequences of this trend has been a growing reliance on nonprofit...
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Effective Engagement Strategies for an Increasingly Dispersed Workforce
Monday, September 15, 2014
Technological advances have made it easier for employees to work anytime, anywheremaking work something you do, rather than a place you go. As a result, the federal governments...
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What Managers Can Learn From Team Sports
Monday, September 15, 2014
Imagine that you work in a manufacturing facility where your job is to prepare Persian vases for packaging. Your job is to lay the boxes on their sides before they go on to be automatically...
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