Audit of the VA's Project Management Accountability System (PMAS) Implementation

Audit of the VA's Project Management Accountability System (PMAS) Implementation

Dennis D. McDonald
Accountability, Governance, List_AR, Metrics, Project Management
Here’s some light reading: the US Dept. of Veterans Affairs’ Office of the Inspector General’s “Audit of the Project Management Accountability System Implementation.” Known as “PMAS,” the system was put in place in 2009 to provide better oversight of the VA’s troubled IT development projects. This was done in light of a history of cost overruns and failed IT projects at the VA.

Downsizing The Home Media Collection, Part 1

Dennis D. McDonald
Books, Media
Over the weekend I “weeded” our home book collection. We’re remodeling both our living room and dining room in anticipation of our daughter coming home later this year from the Peace Corps. We’re reducing the number of linear shelf feet devoted to books, CD’s, and DVD’s as we change things around a bit and as we adjust to the increasing importance of digital media.
On the Need to Tolerate Communication Diversity

On the Need to Tolerate Communication Diversity

Dennis D. McDonald
Change, Collaboration, Demographics, Governance, Innovation, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Transfer, List_AR, , ,
IBM’s Luis Suarez’ blog post Social Media at Work presents basic arguments for why organizations, not just individuals, need to adopt social media as a normal part of their communication infrastructure. He suggests that organizations need to adopt social media because their employees and their customers are using social media.
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