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April 24, 2007
Performance metrics to drive LOB choices
Mary Mosquera at FCW has an interesting report about OMB’s push to drive adoption of Financial Management Line of Business providers by gathering and providing performance metrics. Trisha Broadbelt, deputy program manager of the Financial Management LOB at the Interior…
New OMB Management Watch and High-Risk lists published
GovExec reports that OMB released updated versions of the Management Watch List and High-Risk List last week. As they put it:
Business cases for IT investments end up on the list if OMB officials find one or more weaknesses. The…
April 20, 2007
FedSpending dinged for publishing SSNs
[Via Slashdot, even though they incorrectly attribute the whole thing to OMB] Uh oh. The New York Times has an article today about FedSpending.org which unbeknownst-to-most included thousands of social security numbers. Apparently the data came from USDA, via Census…
Open source Grants.gov tools available from UC Berkeley
Ken Geis of UC Berkeley sent me this e‑mail today and I thought others would be interested in his Grants.gov tools. They help with the PureEdge forms right now and Ken plans to update them for the new Adobe forms (and…
April 18, 2007
Notes from Grants.gov Stakeholder Meeting 4/18/2007
Grants.gov posts the Webcasts about a week after the event so I thought these notes may be helpful for some folks.…
Grants.gov Stakeholders Webcast today
Just a reminder that there’s a Grants.gov Stakeholders Webcast today, open to one and all. Participation instructions are below.
Please join us for the Grants.gov Stakeholder Webcast on Wednesday, April 18, 2007, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET. This meeting will…
April 10, 2007
Survey on government adoption of SaaS
SaaS is the bizarre acronym for “Software as a Service” (better than “SS”, though, undoubtedly) and Government Futures, who I blogged about a while ago, is conducting a survey to take government and industry’s pulse about SaaS’s use and prospects. From their latest e‑mail…
FFATA pilot rumored
Word reaches me that OMB is moving ahead with a pilot FederalSpending system, relying on federated search technology coming from the Navy. Agencies that will apparently participate in the pilot include the three GMLOB leads (Education, NSF, and HHS/ACF), HUD, and…
April 9, 2007
The Evil Status Report
Another good column from my friend Eric Spiegel, this time about the lowly weekly status report, and how it can be good or evil, depending on your point of view:
If you keep them short and sweet, weekly status reports…
April 8, 2007
ConceptSolutions wins $32m FAA deal
Crikey! I spotted a startling bit of news about a former CMMI Boot Camp client of ours: ConceptSolutions has won a $32 million FAA contract! Good job, guys!…