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Project Management to Product Management: Making the Move

GovLoop

Project management focuses on completing a specific assignment with preset resources. Product management focuses on what you want to achieve. When Bill Laughman, who has worked at the division for 21 years, became Complaint Portal Administrator and Product Owner for the new process in 2019, he was skeptical.

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Managing Conflict Like a Pro

GovLoop

Take a look at these four tips for managing conflict in a professional manner, and think about how you can best incorporate them to help foster a friendly, tension-free office environment. By following best practices for conflict management, any employee can contribute to this kind of positive, dynamic culture. Favorite.

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Manatee County Sheriff’s Office transforms performance management to improve service

American City & Country

According to a 2024 survey by public sector HR management company, NEOGOV , which explored the effects of the ongoing hiring crisis on the public sector, 33% of agencies report impacts to service. Between 2019 and 2023, there was a 40% increase in the number of job openings for police officers. between 2021 and 2022.”

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Smarter Government: Lodi, Calif., Improves the City’s Cyber Resilience

State Tech Magazine

After suffering a ransomware attack in 2019, Benjamin Buecher, IT manager for Lodi, Calif., and his team upgraded their cyberdefenses to include Rubrik Cloud Data Management. The robust backup and disaster recovery solution simplified the city’s IT environment.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

In some instances, notably the Manchester Arena bombing and the Grenfell Tower fire (both in 2017), the shortcomings have been nothing less than scandalous (Kerslake 2018, Moore-Bick 2019). From memory he recited to me a catalogue of omissions, oversights and failures in managing the risks. These are rather ambiguous bodies.

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L.A. County Public Defender Upgrades Case Management System With AWS

State Tech Magazine

When Mohammed Al Rawi joined the Los Angeles County Public Defender’s Office as its first CIO in 2019, reducing the organization’s paper use and making case-related information easier to access were central goals. So, the public defender’s office began to investigate available options for a case management system.

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Learn the Requirements for Cybersecurity in a 5G Environment

FedTech Magazine

billion in 2019). Key areas where 5G will shine are smart city infrastructure and traffic management… Higher bandwidth will allow more devices to be connected (an estimated 29 billion by 2030, up from 8.6 New applications will be possible, especially in Internet of Things and machine-to-machine areas.