Andy (אברהם נפתלי) Blumenthal Leadership, Technology, Life, and Faith ✡

So I was in an Agile and Scrum Management class yesterday.  Always looking for new best practices and efficiencies for what we are doi...

This is a quick breakdown of the 3 types of Project Management Offices (PMOs). Enabling (Supportive) — Provides best practices, templat...

This is a useful 4-part communications process (developed by Dr. Marshall Rosenberg): 1. Observations:   Tell the other person the beha...

So good today to visit the NIST Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) . The cybersecurity solutions developed are aligned to ...

So there are some mighty impressive places to work that really shine in terms of the technology they use and the constant desire to upgrad...

So over and over again, good IT goes bad in a flawed decision-making process.  Even with the best laid plans and governance processes in...

I like this sign that I saw in a local place of business that buys and sells goods.  "When in doubt--PASS!" How many times a...

Christopher Mims in the Wall Street Journal  makes the case for letting employees go rogue with IT purchases. It's cheaper, it...

Healthcare.gov was rolled out on October 1.  Since then there has been lots of bashing of the site and finger-pointing between govern...

More and more, our technology is at risk of a cyber attack.  In fact, just today the Wall Street Journal reported that Iran has hacke...

I found this great white paper by PM Solutions (2003) called " Selecting a Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Methodology ....

Topgrading is a best practice for hiring top performers, developed by Dr. Bradford Smart, and used by many leading companies. According to...

There is an oft-cited best practice for conflict resolution called the speaker-listener technique —in which the speaker explains their posi...

In the government, just getting an “app winner” doesn’t necessarily mean you have a “winning app.” But that’s not stopping us “govies” from ...

Sometimes a leader has to consider and implement a reorganization (“reorg”) as this can benefit a organization. Organizations are not a s...

Frequently employees face double-bind message in the workplace and these not only impair morale, but also can result in poor decision-making...

Many functions in government are guided, if not driven by checklists. For example, federal information technology management has many check...

Just learned of new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) Report documenting the significant progress of E...

A soldier with an iPod mounted on his wrist takes aim with his assault rifle http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iphones-in-...

I have always been fascinated by leadership and how to grow an organization in spite of a broad variety of obstacles to change and maturity....