Preventing Version-control Problems: Rule #2
Rule #2 for preventing version-control problems: Have clear rules for handling online files. Goodness. It sounds simple, doesn’t it?
Category: Management Tips
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.
Preventing Version-Control Problems: Rule #1
Everyone who works on proposals has a version control story. Well, everyone has a version problem story. In these days of online document repositories and shared network drives, version control of RFP response documents has gotten trickier, because everyone can usually access everything all the time. But there are simple …
Separating “Doing” and “Supervising” for Best Results
It’s an old truism of supervision that you can’t do something and supervise it at the same time: The doing pulls time and focus from the supervising. Yet folks keep trying to combine doing and supervising functions on proposals, with dire results.
The Fourth-most Important Thing in RFP Responses
Having a good price — often, the lowest price — is the fourth-most important thing in winning bids. “What?!?” you (or your sales manager) cry. “Price can’t be fourth.”
A Proposal Management Lesson from Software Development
Proposal managers can learn from the difficulties software developers have in estimating schedule to improve their own ability to manage schedule by managing work standards.