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Agile Government Contracting – Part 4 of a Series

by Kevin Jans | Feb 18, 2019 | Skyway CO Insight

Command and Agency leaders must understand the changing reality where they find themselves operating. Technology-driven process improvement means the cost of exploration and experimentation has been so dramatically reduced that discovering solutions that are both more...

Doing What’s Right, For Both Sides of the Contract

by Skyway Contracting Officer | Feb 11, 2019 | Contract Administration, Skyway CO Insight

In one of my first official contract actions in Afghanistan in 2007, I made a common but avoidable mistake, and the result serves as a good lesson for both industry and government contracting personnel – that it is important to do the right thing, for both the...

Agile Government Contracting – Part 3 of a Series

by Kevin Jans | Feb 4, 2019 | Skyway CO Insight

“What does Agile mean?” Agile means using any of the lean principles that improve the probability of a successful procurement in an environment of high complexity and uncertainty. Agile uses the principles of Lean Manufacturing, developed and proven by the Toyota...

Agile Government Contracting – Part 2 of a Series

by Kevin Jans | Jan 21, 2019 | Bids & Proposals, Sales & Marketing, Skyway CO Insight

For Department, Command and Agency leaders, traditional methods have a long track record of legal reliability. Unfortunately, many decades of experience also show that traditional methods have varying levels of success appearing to have a strong inverse correlation...

Strategic Sourcing

by Skyway Contracting Officer | Jan 14, 2019 | Bids & Proposals, Sales & Marketing, Skyway CO Insight

One area of federal government acquisition that has always fascinated me is the concept of “strategic sourcing.” The Office of Secretary of Defense (OSD) website defines strategic sourcing as the collaborative and structured process of critically analyzing an...

Agile Government Contracting – Part 1 of a Series

by Kevin Jans | Jan 7, 2019 | Skyway CO Insight

At the highest levels, Government contracting and Project Management share two approaches – Traditional and Agile. For many years, the Government has been trying to adopt and adapt Agile practices because the Clinger-Cohen Act (Pub. L No. 104-106, 1996) made it...

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