The Sprint Review event is part of the Scrum framework and takes place at the end of each sprint. During the Sprint Review meeting, the …
Trends and features of modern management
Today, new public sector management is not just a set of ideas and political intentions for change. It has become widely practiced in a number …
7 tips to reduce the impact on your business of the COVID-19 pandemic
The crisis that has suddenly plagued us with the COVID-19 pandemic has been an unknown trial to anyone and every business. There are two types …
Nuestro Himno and the English-Only Movement
Author: Deb Kong My grandmother never learned to speak English, other than what was required for her citizenship test. After immigrating to the United States …
One step forward, three steps back
Few years ago, the California Nurses Association began collecting signatures to place a “clean elections” proposition on the November ballot. Were the initiative only about …
The High Cost of Education
If you think that it’s getting outrageously expensive to get an education, you wouldn’t be wrong. Some quick facts from Strapped, a new book from Demos, a …
Building a (Small) Movement
Someone once told me that you can craft the best, most innovative public policy, but unless you can get people to listen, it won’t make …
“English Only” A Decade Later
A study released by the American Institutes for Research and WestED says that no one approach shows significant gains over others in teaching English learners, …
When Business Strategy Meets Philanthropic Giving
Experts in the field of corporate social responsibility (CSR) have advocated for some years now that in order to succeed in this new era of …
Expectmore.gov is still online
Remember the project of the Office of Management and Budget? It is still here. (Expectmore.gov) It is designed to encourage more accountability from federal programs …
What’s in a Champion?
Since the inception of the failed “Bowl Alliance” in 1996 and the subsequent “Bowl Championship Series (BCS)” which has had its share of problems, many …
Managing business organizations and adding business value. An Agile Manager’s Guide to the Theory of BVOP.org
What is business value, and how to increase the value of a business organization according to BVOP.org? https://bvop.org has announced the following organizational value-added business …
Change Management Plan – Real Sample Document, Example
The following material is a real change managing change plan in project management practices. After the problem management plan, there is published a real example …
How people perceive leaders and their attitude toward managers in organizations
As a leader, you cannot afford to spend too much time and attention on things that others say and think about you. If you did, …
Project Management and Agile (Scrum) trainings and certifications
Project management is becoming a key business skill globally. Project management and business skills training is one of the most affordable ways to increase the …
Project Charter – detailed real example for Project Planning phases
This is a real example of a Project Charter document that is extensively used in project management practices and processes. The most common use of …
Are corporate tax shelters unpatriotic? Corporate tax in the USA for American corporations
Tax evasion is not the only charge being levied — the American corporation is under extreme scrutiny from all corners. An article about Corporate tax …
Democratic Club signed on, as did Senator Dianne Feinstein
Democratic Club signed on, as did Senator Dianne Feinstein, peninsula congressman Tom Lantos, Glide Memorial Church’s Rev. Cecil Williams, and a diverse assortment of ethnic …
For San Francisco’s owners and landlords, constricted supply turns out to be great for business
For San Francisco’s incumbent owners and landlords, constricted supply turns out to be great for business. Unaffordability in these precincts is a boon, not a …
In San Francisco, voting initiatives that promise to ease the city’s famed housing crisis are starting and going
IN SAN FRANCISCO, ballot initiatives promising to ease the City’s renowned housing crunch come and go. From the article The Tragedy of Proposition J: A …
Assessing the Risk in Project management and Quantitative approaches to risk
Assessing the Risk in Project management is a very crucial activity. We will discuss the Quantitative approaches to risk as well. We have to recognise …
Example of COSMIC FP counting in Project Management
Estimating in project management is an issue that we believe deserves attention as legal initiative that may be a base for official proposals and taxation …
Business Value-Oriented Project Management (BVOPM)
Business Value-Oriented Project Management (BVOPM) is a new project management standard that aims to help eliminate waste during product development and increase business value added …
The Virtues of an All-Volunteer Military?
Certain objects of public dialogue – such as “supply-side” economics, or whether or not human overpopulation will have catastrophic results – rise and fall cyclically, coming and …
San Francisco’s Bloody Problem
The last three years have seen a notable spike in homicide and gun violence in the Bay Area. In 2005, San Francisco’s homicide rate was the …
The Secret Lives of Bees
An alarming, potentially disastrous agricultural mystery has unfolded quietly over the past few months. Honeybees – the United States chief pollinator – have been leaving their hives …
California’s Aggressive (and Wildly Unrealistic) New End-Use Energy Goals
The California Public Utility Commission (CPUC) today released its Proposed Decision on Issues Relating to Future Savings Goals and Program Planning for 2009-2011 Energy Efficiency and Beyond.
Forgive Me Father, For I Have Emitted
By accepting a donation of about $130,000 in carbon offsets from the publicity-starved – and San Francisco based! – Planktos International, the Vatican this summer became the world’s …
More On Immigration
Everyone has her own point of view on immigration reform. Indeed it is a policy area fraught with emotion and sentiment. Both sides debate migrant …
The grand experiment of Obama
As unimaginable as it may have been a year ago, we are now presented with a new front runner in the democratic primary race — …
May 1: To Boycott or Not to Boycott?
Tomorrow, May 1, advocates are organizing what they have dubbed “The Great American Boycott,” urging immigrants to demonstrate their economic clout by staying home from …
Reducing Mental Health Stigma in the Military
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced today that the military security clearance process will no longer include questions about mental health care history. This is …
The Epicenter of the National Immigration Debate
I drove to Southern California last week seeking a relaxing spring break, but instead I discovered something even more interesting: traveling through Los Angeles on …
Net Neutrality and What a Bad Poll Looks Like
Sen. Ted “Series of Tubes” Stevens’ anti-Net Neutrality bill (S. 2686) will soon be coming before the full Senate. The bill not only seeks to …
A Tale of Two Patent Systems: Pharma and IT Square Off in D.C.
Last Wednesday, Feb 7, Robert Barr, who heads the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology spoke about the current political debate around patent reform, which has mostly …
As goes Maine and Arizona so goes California?
Greg I am not nearly as enthusiastic about the effectiveness of Clean Elections to fix the problems with money in politics. Clean money programs do …