People
Program management: The contractor's role
Here is what it takes, both officially and informally, to make the partnership between an agency and a contractor succeed.
Modernization
Program management: The importance of architecture
Integrating a comprehensive business architecture into an IT program's technical architecture can reduce risk and save time and money.
People
Program management: Governance matters
Getting stakeholders to agree on desired outcomes and ways to achieve them is crucial to ensuring the success of IT programs.
People
Program management: The people factor
Other fundamentals matter little if the right team is not in place, but too often key roles go unfilled, writes Richard Spires.
People
The fundamentals of IT program management
Although there are countless opportunities to go astray when developing agencywide IT projects, most troubled programs make major mistakes right out of the starting block.
Modernization
IT infrastructure: The role of the cloud
Richard Spires explains how agencies can plan for an orderly and forward-looking consolidation.
People
IT infrastructure: The 4 big obstacles and 6 ways to fix them
If CIOs can drive five tactical changes — and get the leadership support to do so — federal IT can be transformed by 2018.
Acquisition
IT management reform: It is time for new legislation
Legislation alone will not fix federal IT management, Richard Spires argues, but there are fundamental problems that a new statute can help address.
People
IT infrastructure: Critical for long-term success
Richard Spires considers the possibilities of consolidation — and the structural obstacles to overcome.
People
The HealthCare.gov rollout: What should we learn?
There are plenty of trouble spots that could have been avoided, Richard Spires argues. And they all boil down to shortfalls in program management.
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