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…
March 11, 2008

Notes from the NGP Meeting, March 11

I managed to get the NGP meeting today and took some notes, which I thought by be useful to a few readers. (Click the link below for more.) Topics and speakers were:  OMB Update — Marguerite Pridgen Mandatory Grants Panel — Sheldon Edner…
April 2, 2009

Buying COTS grants management systems, and aligning with GMLOB

A couple of years ago I made some presentations at the NGMA Conference, and posted them here via Slideshare. That system tells me that the presentations are getting a lot of views lately. As it’s clearly of interest again, I thought it might…
May 4, 2011

TCG Exhibits at NGMA Conference

TCG exhibited at the National Grants Management Association’s (NGMA) 32nd Annual Grants Management Training Conference at the Hershey Lodge and Conference Center in Hershey, PA, May 1–4, 2011. The conference was attended by over 300 grants professionals—representing both grantors and…
January 4, 2011

Executive Leaders Radio Issues Case Study about TCG’s Dan Turner

Executive Leaders Radio, which airs on Washington, DC’s WHFS 1580 AM, has issued a case study about TCG President Dan Turner. The case study, which highlights how Mr. Turner built TCG into the success story that it is today by “delegating…
May 27, 2008

SF424 form changes in Federal Register

[Thought I’d posted this last week; apparently not!]  The changes to the SF424 form set have been posted to the Federal Register. You can review them here:  SF424 R&R — http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-10797.htm SF424 Mandatory — http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-10796.htm SF424 A — http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-10798.htm SF424 B…
August 1, 2006

FPDS-NG testing

Washington Technology reports that GSA wants people to test FPDS-NG, one of the systems being mooted for replacement as a consequence of S.2590, the bill which proposes creation of a single federal funding (contracts and grants) data. (Go try it out, here.)…
November 1, 2018

Creating A Happy Remote Workplace

by Daniel Turner TCG was built on the idea that telecommuting is more productive and leads to happier employees than a typical office-set workforce. However, building a remote workforce that keeps employees happy is fraught with challenges. In August’s edition of the…
April 2, 2008

Grants.gov Stakeholders Webcast — April 16th

Just got this notice (and entered it on the Grants Management Events Calendar): Please join us for the next Grants.gov Stakeholder Webcast on Wednesday, April 16, 2008, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. ET. This meeting will be a webcast only…
March 26, 2008

Creating an RSS feed From an iCalendar Zimbra Stream

At TCG, we have moved to using Zimbra for company-wide collaboration and are rather pleased with its mail and calendar capabilities.  Within the system we created an event calendar to hold vacations or company events, and I thought that an RSS…