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Project Management Highlights: • Migrated from P3 to Primavera IT Project Office • Standardized project management practices Project Statistics: • 272 federal employees and 108 contractors • 40 project managers The U.S. Census Bureau does more than count people once every 10 years. As “the leading source of quality data about the nation’s people and economy,” the bureau collects and processes information year-round. Much of that information relies on classification of data coordinated through the Geography Division of the Census Bureau. “I like to say that all roads lead to geography,” says Brian Scott, chief of the Geographic Programs Project Management Branch of the Census Bureau, “because data is only meaningful when applied to some geographic area, be it national, state, local, or tribal, tract or block.” The Geography Division creates, delivers and updates reference files, digital and paper maps, address lists and so on for divisions within the bureau, as well as for other government organizations. For example, the Decennial Management Division (DMD) of the Census Bureau, which coordinates the once-a-decade census, might ask the Geography Division to provide a digital map and address list for a mobile computing device used by bureau workers who go door-to-door gathering information about people in the United States. The digital map instrument would include global positioning system (GPS) capabilities so that the workers, called enumerators, could accurately locate each residence and the division could, in turn, assign each address to a geographic area for tabulating the data......
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