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November, 2011
Tuesday, November, 1, 2011 | Ed Anderson
The Art of Aligning Agility
Tags: Agile, Business Alignment, Portfolio Management
Now more than ever, CIOs are facing the challenge of balancing conflicting demands. While our customers pressure us to be more agile and innovative, tightening budgets drive us to remain conservative.
Tuesday, November, 1, 2011 | Steven P. Bucci
Cyber Security: Being Agile and Ahead of the Bad Guys
Tags: Information Security, Continuous Monitoring, Information Assurance, Cyber, Cyber Security
Many factors can claim being keys to cyber security: Information sharing, public private partnerships, education, and awareness are all vitally important to our national and individual efforts to protect our networks, our data, and our systems. Advocates of these areas and those of technology, work force training, and leadership, all can rightfully declare their niche is imperative to our security, but I would like to offer another; agility
Tuesday, November, 1, 2011 | Rana Chegu
How Can IT Investments Make or Break the Bottom Line?
Tags: Portfolio Management, ERP, Enterprise Performance Management Framework, Performance
When an agency makes an investment of any sort—IT included—management undoubtedly wants to know that it was money well spent. However, many investments in government are experiencing significant cost and schedule delays and lack a comprehensive set of performance measures to assess whether they meet their intended business results.
Tuesday, November, 1, 2011 | Benjamin J. Balter
Federal Agility: Adopting a Cultural Approach to a Technical Problem
Tags: Agile, Software Development, Software Engineering
Never before has it been so vital that the federal government do more with less. On all sides of the National Mall, government agencies are tightening their belts considerably, but the challenge is not simply about trimming budgets or spending less. In many cases, the problem is a matter of spending smarter.
Tuesday, November, 1, 2011 | Stuart Williams
How Will the United States Fill the Estonian Prescription for EHR?
Tags: Health IT, EHR, Electronic Health Care Records
As the United States grapples with health care legislation and implementing electronic health records (EHRs), the global community zooms past us toward the EHR finish line (Mason, 2005).
Tuesday, November, 1, 2011 | Samira Askarova
Saving Failing Projects
Tags: Project Management, Project Turnaround, Performance, Portfolio Management
Why do projects fail? More often than not, projects fail because managers do not audit and modify the team’s course of action frequently enough throughout the project’s lifecycle to address challenges that can cause serious damage.
Tuesday, November, 1, 2011 | Brian Moran
Cartoon Funnies- Going Agile
Tags: Agile, funnies