What's going on in the world?

We have the President of the United States claiming the dubious honor of the biggest liar ever for telling Americans you can keep your insurance and doctors with a convincing speech maintaining a straight face while promoting his Obamacare. What a good role model for our children.

Our Schools and Colleges. What is going on with all these crazy shooters. Our children are not safe getting an education. We have to teach lock downs in our schools.

Going to the Malls we have crazy shooters. We need to be on guard wth an action plan if an active shooter situation occurs.

Our Airports are not safe. Home grown terrorist uses his clearance to sneak a bomb in to cause harm to innocent people. 

The World is not a safe place. I'm sad that our children have to grow up in a dangerous world now. We have to turn it around one day at a time. 

I remember as a child going to the Airport and all the way to the boarding gate to say goodbye to a loved one. Going to the Mall was safe.

I wrote this post two years ago. Not much has changed since then. It's 2016 now.

Reflections of 2013

Another year is coming to an end. Take some time to look back at 2013.

ObamaCare implementation upsetting the majority of americans that had a doctor and good insurance plan. A very poorly written law with deception and confusion. The roll out of ObamaCare is a joke.

The unemployed looking for a job. Dear hiring managers, stop asking applicants the question "Why do you think you have not found a job yet". Hiring managers need to to put themselves in the applicants shoes. I think hiring managers would not appreciate that question if they became unemployed and find it hard to land a decent job. 

Violence in the workplace, schools and public places is an issue that needs more attention. Not a simple fix.

Social Media has so much power now. You can lose your job or get suspended. You need to be careful what you say and post. We all need to speak and post responsibly, but do not take away anyone's right to "Freedom of Speech" and call them a prejudice person if you lack reading comprehension skills when you disagree with them. Respect everyone's right to view their options and if you don't like it tune it out. If the person is not causing physical harm you need to grow up because we can't always hear what we want to hear. 

We need to be thankful for what he have. Having a job and home should mean a lot when so many are struggling paycheck to paycheck to survive. Just take a look at all the homeless on the streets and camping in the parks.

Obamacare what was he thinking?

The Hawaii Prepaid Health Care (PHC) Act (PHCA) is a state law in Hawaii passed in 1974 requiring employers to offer health insurance to employees working more than 20 hours per week. You can read more about it on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_Prepaid_Health_Care_Act

It's strange how the President grew up in Hawaii and he did not think about modeling his Obamacare after Hawaii to lay the foundation for the Affordable Care Act. Instead he creates the master plan that will take care of America in one sweep.

The implementation of Obamacare is an example of poor planning, misleading deliverables and not realizing the scope of such a huge project. Obamacare did not employ the right subject matter experts to create a law that could have been modeled after Hawaii to start with. Lay a realistic foundation first then build on it filling in the gaps in phases.

HealthCare.Gov a text book Project Management nightmare

It's in the news daily the debacle of the the implementation of one of the biggest projects the Affordable Care Act aka ObamaCare.

I'm scratching my head. How was the project team selected? 

We now realize that the team in charge of implementing ObamaCare did not have the technical experience to build a complex website. The most important person the Project Manager lacked insight and tenacity to realize that something did not feel right. Let's give him a break. He was not told or unaware of issues. What!!! A Project Manager needs to be in everyone's business always by asking questions to uncover any deficiencies.