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Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) is a process maturity model focused on helping organizations mature how they create things (CMMI for Development), provide services (CMMI for Services), or buy things (CMMI for Acquisition). The predecessor to CMMI, CMM, was created back in the late 80's and early 90&
lessons-learned
Growing up, my father had a few mantra that he would repeat over and over again for my sister and me. One of them was: Always return things to the way you found them When I would borrow my Dad's tools to take a part something (hopefully something
leadership
Several years ago, near the beginning of my professional career, I was a junior engineer helping with the design and issuance of new access badges for a campus of employees where I worked. Thousands of employees would be getting new badges, they would wear it around their neck on a
lessons-learned
A few years ago, we did a team building exercise at work which involved the group collaborating on a vague project with no defined roles for any of us. I think exercise was intended to show how different personality types could better collaborate, though I learned a very different lesson.
lessons-learned
This may be obvious to people, and it's probably near useless now that everyone has a GPS in their car or on their smartphone; but if you want to turn around and go the opposite direction on the highway, you should take the second exit. The first exit
lessons-learned
Apparently Robert Havighurt wrote a book in 1952 that popularized the concept of teachable moments. I've never heard of Mr. Havighurt, nor his book, but fortunately my father taught me all about teachable moments. When I was learning to drive, my father insisted on logging many, many hours
lessons-learned
I was at a Subway recently, where I (very) often grab a sandwich during the work week, and a guy in line started a conversation with me, complimenting me on talking to each of the sandwich artists. We talked about how people so rarely take the time or energy to
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Government Contracting is a tough industry to keep up with -- here are some good sources of Government Contracting (GovCon) updates: * Free Services * Nextgov email newsletters * Federal News Radio email updates * Government Matters, a 30-minute, weekly TV show on WJLA * Government Technology * Federal Computing Weekly (FCW) * Paid Services * Washington Technology
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Kathleen and I are excited to ride in our 3rd and 11th MS Bike Rides (respectively) this year. We'll be riding the 100km (62 mile) route on June 7 out of National Harbor, with some long- time cycling/wine friends. The ride benefits the MS Society and their
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In my recent focus on internal IT infrastructure and process (more CIO and less CTO), I've been searching for relevant CIO resources -- here are a few I've found useful. * CIO Today * CIO.com Newsletters (e.g. CIO Government, CIO Leader) * CIO.gov * SearchCIO * Blogs.hbr.
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I've been interested in getting back into sailing, after my days teaching sailing down at Camp Pianktank; so I've been checking out DC-area sailing options. I thought I'd share what I've found for those interested: * DC Sail * Classes: Yes, members can take
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Back in late 2012 I went to a great Acceleprise Demo Day, and tonight I caught yet another class of cool companies doing impressive stuff in DC through http://www.Acceleprise.vc (DC-based accelerator focused on enterprise technology): * Apozy - sadly I missed this one due to exciting DC traffic