Win more government and competitive contracts by using project management principles. Schedule proposal efforts and staff proposal teams for on-time delivery of compliant and high-scoring bids. Avoid version control problems and staff burnout.
Look! Here’s Seth, writing about management reserve. No, wait, that’s what we call it in Proposal Land. He calls it a ledge: one that will keep you from drowning. It’s a compelling metaphor. The ledge is a combination of time and money. It’s the buffer between here and disaster. The …
We’ve seen how other disciplines can help us in Proposal Land: with lessons on fostering teamwork, drawing on a superb article on managing design teams (start here) with lessons on writing better, riffing on a-man-walks-into-a-bar variants (start here) and adapting instructions for writing haiku (see here) with meeting the schedule, …
Running into a burning building is heroic work. Keeping buildings from burning down in the first place is actually just as important. And it scales more reliably. – Seth’s Blog I’ve worked with firefighters and with fire inspectors on proposals: literally and metaphorically. Unless the damn place/proposal is on fire, …