Author: Pete Sinnott
September 1, 2005
CMMI FAQ
TCG’s Senior CMMI Level 2 Mentor, Maureen Sullivan, just published a great article on www.tcg.com: What is CMMI Level 2 … and How Do We Get There?: A Brief Guide to CMMI Level 2 for Small Software Development Organizations. The article is intended to…
August 30, 2005
NGP article in GCN
Before I went on vacation last week I was interviewed by Government Computer News’ Jason Miller about the National Grants Partnership’s first white paper. The resulting article was published yesterday and I think it captures the core of the white paper very well,…
August 18, 2005
Oregon govt uses Asterisk and other open source
Slashdot has a posting today. about the Oregon government’s use of open source technologies, including Asterisk (an open source PBX system).…
August 10, 2005
HHS multi-agency systems
Charles Havekost, HHS CIO, was a speaker at an IAC-sponsored lunch yesterday, which I attended, and he spoke a little about a HHS system that services multiple agencies for their ata-collection approval process. This isn’t the only example of such a multi-agency system at HHS:…
August 9, 2005
Vienna using social software for grant applications peer review
(Via Boing Boing) A Viennese art group called netznetz has decided to use a “reputation system” to decide how it will distribute the grant money it receives from the local government. The aim is to encourage collaboration among the grantee community…
August 8, 2005
Federal IT Managers Leaning Toward Open Source
(Via Potomac Tech Wire) “An increasing number of government agencies are choosing open source architecture when upgrading their information technology systems, according to a new report from Potomac-based Larstan Business Reports. According to a survey of IT managers in the civilian and…
InfoWorld: Build your business with open source
InfoWorld has an excellent set of reports on how to “Build your business with open source”, with overviews of products in categories including CRM, CMS, business intelligence, business process management, portals, VOIP, and identity. We’re huge advocates of open source…
NGMA Conference 2006
If you didn’t already know, registration for the National Grants Management Association’s 27th Annual Conference, running from 26–27 April in Washington DC, is now open. The 2005 conference had several highlights for me, which I posted about on my blog.…
August 7, 2005
TagCloud
TagCloud is a new folksonomy tool that “searches any number of RSS feeds you specify, extracts keywords from
the content and lists them according to prevalence within the RSS feeds.” This is useful because you can quickly see what tags are…
Scott Berkun project management reading
The Personal MBA is “an entrepreneurial approach to business education.” A key part of this fantastic idea is The Personal MBA 40 which is a list of superior books about business, and two reading groups have been formed to discuss and learn…