Proposal Reflections

Four weeks ago, I posted an article that discussed how proposal management is in actuality project management. I pointed out how our long-standing proposal best practices are Agile , and have been Agile long before Agile was the latest industry craze. I have been so pleased with the discussion that this article has sparked. I have been building on some of these discussion points in a series of articles focused on how we can expand the application of Agile in our opportunity pursuit processes. First I discussed the role of stakeholders  and explored how we can better integrate stakeholders into the business development lifecycle. Then I looked at Scrum , how our proposal best practices fit into the Scrum model, and how we can learn further from Agile ideologies to improve our proposal processes. Next I explored some common Agile tools , and discussed how we might apply them to increase the efficiency of our proposal processes. In the following weeks, I have looked at some uniqu

Four weeks ago, I posted an article that discussed how proposal management is in actuality project management. I pointed out how our long-standing proposal best practices are Agile , and have been Agile long before Agile was the latest industry craze. I have been so pleased with the discussion that this article has sparked. I have been building on some of these discussion points in a series of articles focused on how we can expand the application of Agile in our opportunity pursuit processes. First I discussed the role of stakeholders   and explored how we can better integrate stakeholders into the business development lifecycle. Then I looked at Scrum , how our proposal best practices fit into the Scrum model, and how we can learn further from Agile ideologies to improve our proposal processes. Next I explored some common Agile tools , and discussed how we might apply them to increase the efficiency of our proposal processes. Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll take a look at

Three weeks ago, I posted an article that discussed how proposal management is in actuality project management. I pointed out how our long-standing proposal best practices are Agile , and have been Agile long before Agile was the latest industry craze. I have been so pleased with the discussion that this article has sparked. I have been building on some of these discussion points in a series of articles focused on how we can expand the application of Agile in our opportunity pursuit processes. The first week I discussed the role of stakeholders  and explored how we can better integrate stakeholders into the business development lifecycle. Last week I took look at Scrum , how our proposal best practices fit into the Scrum model, and how we can learn further from Agile ideologies to improve our proposal processes. This week I’ll take a look at some common Agile tools and discuss how we might apply them to increase the efficiency of our proposal processes. Tools for Trackin

Two weeks ago, I posted an article that discussed how proposal management is in actuality project management. I pointed out how our long-standing proposal best practices are Agile , and have been Agile long before Agile was the latest industry craze. I have been so pleased with the discussion that this article has sparked. I plan to build on some of these discussion points in a series of articles focused on how we can expand the application of Agile in our opportunity pursuit processes. Last week I discussed the role of stakeholders and explored how we can better integrate stakeholders into the business development lifecycle. This week I’ll take a look at Scrum, how our proposal best practices fit into the Scrum model, and how we can learn further from Agile ideologies to improve our proposal processes. Scrum A Scrum is comprised of short iterations, called sprints, within which work is completed iteratively. In my calculations, a proposal response effort in actu