Zack Sionakides
PMI-ACP Retrospective
I recently took and passed the Project Management Institute’s Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) exam. While taking it I had a number of thoughts regarding the quality of the exam, how well it measured agile knowledge, and where improvements could be achieved. Overall I found the exam to be pretty good, […]
System for Award Management (SAM)
The System for Award Management (SAM) is an official website of the U.S. government. SAM consolidated the capabilities of CCR/FedReg, ORCA, and EPLS.
Fixing the NBA Draft Lottery
Issue: Unlike other team sports in the US, NBA teams generally superstar players to have any realistic chance at winning a title. The difference in effect between a superstar player such as Lebron James and an average player is enormous, and as such these few players in the NBA are […]
The cure for McDonald’s Ills
McDonald’s has been in the financial news quite a bit lately, and not for good reasons (WSJ Article). The company has been struggling quite precipitously the past year and a half, with revenue and earnings drops that look to be a sign of bad things to come. Key metrics including […]
Performance Management System Improvement
Performance management systems have been brought to the forefront recently with the Harvard Business Review cover article on changes at Deloitte (https://hbr.org/2015/04/reinventing-performance-management). The article is a good exposé on efforts that Deloitte is taking to reinvent their performance management system from the ground up. Two major statistical take-aways from the […]
Pennsylvania Website Rebuild
Rebuilt website for the Pennsylvania DOT motorcycle safety program. Prior website was dated and didn’t communicate well. The new website is a modern look, mobile friendly, and provides the information that prospective students need to enroll in the correct course.
Naval Academy Sailboats
This project involved the acquisition of sailboats for the US Naval Academy. The Naval Academy uses these boats for training and for competitive events.
LPTA – Tactics for Winning
Low price technically acceptable (LPTA) – the bane of most Government contractors business development efforts. All that successful past performance and capture management comes down to essentially commodity pricing. There are many reasons the Government is using LPTA bids in greater frequency: budget pressure, limited acquisition staff to procure more […]
Agile Proposal Management
Is this a bid and proposal scenario you see in your organization? The proposal gets to the red team (or worse gold team) and the product is just way off. It could be of poor quality, incomplete, or not aligned with the organization’s vision, strategy, and ways of doing business. […]
