EA Gov by 1105

Long Hiatus :) I love the summer...

Anyway, i got invited to speak at EA Gov in DC last week. This was a really good conference for both a speaker and attendee. The session i was a panelist on had good questions and all the panelists did a good job answering. There was one speaker, from DOD, that was way too hyper... David Wennergren or something like that. Sad part about him, really positive, no substance. There were two questions that were asked that need better answers from someone at his level.
1. How do I obtain higher level stakeholder involvement in my agency?
He did not even entertain us with an example of success or challenge he experienced.
... arg, cant remember the other one.. tired today, sorry about that.

the session i got the most out of was on the first day.
Session 3-1: Agency Implementation of the FSAM
Really good session on the basics of what FSAM has done for you... The one part of the discussion i liked the most was generated from the question:
Why isnt FSAM a policy rather than a guideline?
The basic answer was that FSAM will be modified as needed for each agency, but not all of it. So how do you write policy that requires part, but not all of something? In the end, it just would not work, and I agree.

I Hope to get back to posting regularly now that my workload is normal. until next time.