This afternoon the acting director of the government-backed insurer of pension plans will testify that the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation has a $33.5 billion funding hole. That’s the insurer’s largest deficit in its entire 35-year history, and will pose an enormous challenge to fill. The PBGC’s... 

There is a discussion on LinkedIn Earned Value Management group about how to use EV to manage a program in the enterprise IT domain. The domain of course is the Federal Government and all the reporting around the growing failure rate. This is one of those non-trivial topics that has been ongoing for decades. The concept... 

Just a quick follow up on a post of mine from late May headed “The Fastest Start-up in History?”. Alas, as feared, the power of slightly later-starting entrant Threadless killed the business before any sales occured. See Ben’s announcement and discussion thereof. I guess it stands as a lesson in the power of...