Minnesota CIO Drills Down on Vehicle Licensing, Cybersecurity
Government Technology
Minnesota subsequently took the project in-house and MNIT and the Department of Vehicle Services (DVS) completed it at a cost of at least $90 million. Since taking the helm at … “Inability to challenge thinking — the inability to challenge your peer …

Learning opportunity on mining training’s competitive edge
Creamer Media’s Mining Weekly
Potential machine failures are simulated and operators are trained to activate the necessary response to these as well as to emergencies. During Mining Weekly’s visit, the explosives … As project management is the core business of Murray & Roberts …

Bison Range planning docs open for comment
Daily Inter Lake
The planning’s most recent step was the release for public comment of three draft documents: a vision, list of goals and a range of management alternatives for the project. That last file details five possible approaches for managing the refuge. Option …

Bison Range planning docs open for comment
Daily Inter Lake
The planning’s most recent step was the release for public comment of three draft documents: a vision, list of goals and a range of management alternatives for the project. That last file details five possible approaches for managing the refuge. Option …

Less management, more success: Inside Supercell’s ‘upside-down’ organization
Gamasutra
There is no greenlight process from management, no milestone meetings where teams need to justify their project’s existence to finance. Teams can kill their … While they can claim the credit for success, they also lay claim to failures. The ensuing …

Experts call on Scottish Govt to take action over big four accountancy firms after damning UK Parliament Carillion …
CommonSpace
… experts have told CommonSpace that the Scottish Government should act on the findings of a new UK Parliamentary Committee report which called for the break up of the big four accountancy firms in light of its failures in the collapse of project …
UK Government lacked ‘bravery’ as Carillion became a ‘time bomb’MEConstructionNews.com

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Healthy bridges are inspected every 2 years. So why was Wando inspected weekly?
Charleston Post Courier
Gordon, president of the National Academy of Forensic Engineers, is an expert in the field that examines engineering failures to determine what happened and prevent future failures. “Why would you put cables underneath the surface … T.L. James …

Was Mueller Aware of Colorado-Based FBI Agents Attempt to Steal Innovative Criminal Investigations Software
Digital Journal
Congress gave the FBI $400 million dollars for the Virtual Case Files (VCF) case management modernization project which failed and was declared “unfit for use” in the summer of 2004. By the fall of 2004, Mueller was made aware of CILC by the Department …

Zenyatta Announces New Board Chair, New Board Committees and Appointment of Chief Restructuring Officer
GlobeNewswire (press release)
Forward-looking statements include estimates and statements with respect to Zenyatta’s future plans, objectives or goals, to the effect that Zenyatta or management expects a stated condition or result to occur, including the expected timing for release …

Engineering expert raises concerns about BP drilling plan off Nova Scotia
CBC.ca
Bob Bea, professor emeritus at the University of California Berkley and co-director of the Marine Technology and Management Group Center for Risk Mitigation, made the assessment in a recent op-ed for the National Observer. … Part of Bea’s career was …