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What do you wish you knew about government contracting? What if you had access to a seasoned contracting officer, so you could understand the process from their point of view? Kevin Jans is President of Skyway Acquisition, a team of former COs on a mission to bridge government and industry, helping clients target better and win more contracts. He also serves as host of the Contracting Officer Podcast. With 16 years of experience as a contracting officer for the Department of Defense, Kevin bought and managed more than $3 billion in products and services. On this episode of the RFP Success Show, Kevin joins me to discuss the three deciders in every purchase and describe how much control contracting officers have in the decision-making process. Kevin walks us through the four acquisition time zones, explaining why you need to know about an RFP long before it drops and how to learn more about the budget for a given purchase. Listen in to understand the #1 thing Kevin feared when selecting a new vendor and learn what a contracting officer looks for—beyond simply meeting the requirements of an RFP. Key Takeaways Kevin's background as a contracting officer for the Department of Defense How Skyway Acquisition serves as a bridge between government and industry The 3 deciders in every purchase—economic decider, customer and procurer How much control contracting officers have in the decision-making process What differentiates a technical sale from a business sale Kevin's 4 acquisition time zones Requirement Market research RFP Selection Why you need to know about an RFP long before it drops The best way to learn more about the budget for a particular purchase 3 things you can do to go beyond just meeting the requirements of an RFP The #1 thing contracting officers fear when selecting a new vendor The limits of a contracting officer's responsibility to engage with industry Connect with Kevin Skyway Acquisition Kevin on LinkedIn Contracting Officer Podcast Connect with Lisa Lisa's Website Lisa on Twitter Lisa on Facebook Lisa on LinkedIn The RFP Success Company on YouTube The RFP Success Company on LinkedIn Subscribe on iTunes Email podcast@rfpsuccess.com Resources Agile Government Contracting by John Stenbeck and Kevin Jans Save Your Time: A Former Contracting Officer Explains Why the Government Market May (or May Not) Be Right for You by Kevin Jans The 3 Deciders on Contracting Officer Podcast EP118 FOIA The Technical vs. the Business Sale on Contracting Officer Podcast EP222 What Is a Mid-Size Business? on Contracting Officer Podcast EP099 The Acquisition Time Zones on Contracting Officer Podcast EP003 Where Do RFPs Come From? on Contracting Officer Podcast EP381 Is Your Price Reasonable & Realistic? on Contracting Officer Podcast EP338 What Is a Red Team Review? on Contracting Officer Podcast EP396 Staffing Is Not Just Staffing on Contracting Officer Podcast EP097 The Execution Time Zones on Contracting Officer Podcast EP372 FAR 15.2 Book a Call with the RFP Success Company Dare to Be Influential: Maximizing Your Positive Influence While Still Being True to You by Lisa Rehurek The RFP Success Book by Lisa Rehurek The RFP Success Institute
Bonjour à tou·te·s et bienvenue dans ce nouveau format de P1P2R !Après ne pas avoir présenté la bière du moment nous parlons de nos lectures du moment ! C'est donc à partir de 00:05:59 que Thierry commence à nous présenter 5 livres !-Robur-le-conquérant et Maître du monde de Jules Verne à 00:06:29 (Aventure)-Sorcières, la puissance invaincue des femmes de Mona Chollet à 00:11:33 (Sociologie)-La très joyeuse plaisante et récréative histoire du bon chevalier sans peur et sans reproche, le gentil seigneur de Bayart de Jacques De Mailles 00:15:11 (Histoire et Aventure)-Star Trek : Klingon for the Galactic Traveler de Marc Okrand 00:21:33 (Apprentissage du Klingon et de ses variantes) A partir de 00:33:38 je vous présente les livres suivants :-La ferme des animaux de Georges Orwell 00:34:05 (Fantastique)-Des souris et des hommes de John Stenbeck 00:37:01 (Drame) A partir de 00:50:30 Pauline nous présente sa sélection :-La main gauche de la nuit de Ursula K. Le Guin (Cycle de Hain) (Science-Fiction/Fantastique)-Une culture du viol à la française, Du « troussage de domestique » à la « liberté d'importuner » de Valérie Rey-Robert 00:52:22 (Sociologie) A partir de 01:16:51 Matou nous présente son livre :-Les Transformations culturelles ou comment les valeurs des individus bouleversent le monde de Pierre Bréchon et Ronald Inglehart (Sociologie) En fin d'émission Matou rappelle le décès de Pierre Péan et conseille vivement la lecture de ses ouvrages. Musique d'intro : Lizzo - JuiceMusique de fin : Remix de Superstition par Opolopo
Three seasoned Project Management practitioners, teachers, and authors share their insights, observations and what they consider the important issues of the day. Dr. Kenneth Smith talks about techniques and tools and why it's important for PMs to understand the underlying principles of the tools they use. John Stenbeck explains how Agile can be scaled up to the portfolio or organizational level. And Carl Pritchard shares techniques that PMs can use when they need to communicate with their managers or executives of the organization. Listen, learn, and get a free PDU! PDU Information Earn education PDUs in the PMI Talent Triangle for each podcast. Use the following information in PMI’s CCRS system to register the PDUs for this podcast: PDU Category: Online or Digital Media Provider Number: 4634 PDU Claim Code: 4634NXANUE Activity Number: PMPOV0058 PDUs for this episode: 1 About the Speakers Ken Smith is a long-time member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and IPMA-USA; a project management practitioner, researcher-evaluator, manager, advisor, consultant & instructor/facilitator. Initially a management intern, analyst/systems specialist with the US Department of Defense; he later was a Senior Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Agency for International Development and gained world-wide experience – at HQ and field levels -- as a management systems advisor, evaluator, project, program & portfolio manager of various sector projects, as well as an in-house trainer/facilitator. Now retired from USAID, Dr. Smith conducts workshop-seminars in various aspects of project management, monitoring and evaluation for PMI, as well as other organizations. John G. Stenbeck, PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, CSP, is the Founder of GR8PM, Inc. (pronounced “Great PM”). He is a three-time Amazon #1 Best Selling author. His industry-leading project management books have sold almost $3 million. John has been a guest on VoiceAmerica talk radio, Good Morning America, the Today Show, Fox News and the Oprah Winfrey Show. He is a sought-after Keynote speaker because he enables executives and professionals to become powerfully productive leaders. Carl Pritchard is the principal and founder of Pritchard Management Associates, and is a recognized lecturer, author, researcher, and instructor. As a lecturer he is considered a leading authority on risk management and presents on a variety of management topics, ranging from project essentials to the complexities of network diagramming and team motivation. He has published articles on project management maturity, the international trends in PM, advances in risk management, and served as the lead chapter author for the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, Risk Management Chapter (4th Edition). His work as an instructor has taken him around the world, training with some of the leading international training organizations, as well as for private clients and the Project Management Institute®. He is the U.S. Correspondent for the U.K. project management journal, Project Manager Today.
Patrick and Dad kick off Halloween month with a Mike Magnnola, Christopher Golden penned and John Stenbeck has drawn a simple tale of a British lord battling a Vampiric king with the alternate history World War 1 plague ravaged Europe as the setting. Fun right? Next Week: The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
ANDY CROWE ● BILL YATES ● NICK WALKER ● JOHN STENBECK NICK WALKER: Welcome to Manage This, the podcast by project managers for project managers. It’s an opportunity to meet and discuss what matters to you in the world of project management. Whether you are already a professional project manager or working toward certification in […] The post Episode 11 – John Stenbeck – The Agile Nerd appeared first on PMP Certification Exam Prep & Training - Velociteach.
ANDY CROWE ● BILL YATES ● NICK WALKER ● JOHN STENBECK NICK WALKER: Welcome to Manage This, the podcast by project managers for project managers. It's an opportunity to meet and discuss what matters to you in the world of project management. Whether you are already a professional project manager or working toward certification in the field, our goal is to help you along the way. And we do that by keeping you up to date on the latest developments in the field, as well as hearing some real life stories from those who are making a difference in the industry. I'm your host, Nick Walker. And with me are two guys who make this all happen. They are our resident experts, Andy Crowe and Bill Yates. They have the experience of seeing project management from all angles, and they want you to benefit from their experience. Here we are again, guys. How's it going? ANDY CROWE: We're off to a good start, Nick. And I'm very excited about this particular podcast. We've got a good friend in the studio, as well. NICK WALKER: Yes. He is a heavy hitter, you might say. John Stenbeck is the president of Gr8pm, spelled G-R-8-P-M. He's the author of three books. He's a sought-after keynote speaker. He's been a guest on “Good Morning America,” “The Today Show,” “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” He's been featured on the front page of the Los Angeles Times. And just when we thought he couldn't reach any higher, he's a guest now here on Manage This. ANDY CROWE: All that, John, led you to this point. NICK WALKER: Okay. Andy, I know one of the reasons you're excited about having John with us is that his most recent book, John's recent book the “Agile Almanac” has been ranked the No. 1 bestseller in Agile's project management on Amazon.com, and No. 2 bestseller in project management overall, second only to the PMBOK Guide itself. ANDY CROWE: Excellent. And I got a chance to read the “Agile Almanac” before it was released. John was kind enough to share some of that with me. So great resource, a really, really good book. NICK WALKER: Now, John, I don't think you're going to be insulted when I tell you Bill here has described you as a “PMBOK nerd,” okay? But I think you're in good company. JOHN STENBECK: Fair enough. BILL YATES: Fair enough. Okay, good. NICK WALKER: He says that about himself, as well. BILL YATES: Yeah, I threw myself in the category. So that – don't know whether that's a good thing or a bad thing. But here we are as PMBOK nerds. JOHN STENBECK: Probably all of the listeners are going to count themselves pretty close to that category, too; you know? BILL YATES: That's true. NICK WALKER: Well, you know, in past podcasts, we have talked a lot about Agile practices. And now that they're going to be in the PMBOK Guide, just give us an indication of how that's changing the world of project management. JOHN STENBECK: Well, you know, I think one of the big considerations is that it hasn't been since 1997, so we're talking 20 years since the last time something this magnitude happened with the PMBOK. Twenty years ago it was theory of constraints, Eliyahu Goldratt. There's nobody, you know, there's none of us PMBOK nerds who don't embrace that content that was added to the PMBOK back then. And I think that what we're going to see is a lot of this happening as the new edition of the PMBOK comes out. The funniest part of the whole thing for me is the number of PMPs who think they don't do Agile. In fact, you know, if you think back to the first time – and this may be too long ago for some of us. But the very first time you opened the PMBOK Guide, and you looked at it, and you said this is exactly how we talk now, right, that is just laughable. None of us talked that way before we learned the vocabulary. We behaved as project managers, we executed as project managers, but we didn't have that core vocabulary. So I think Agile's going to give us some richness, some additional vocabulary.
Rick A. Morris will be interviewing best-selling author John Stenbeck. Given the immense pressure faced by project teams to control budgets and meet deadlines, it is even possible to suggest they could have a Work/Life Balance? Come listen to the invigorating John discuss is latest book which is ranked #1 in Agile Project Management and hear a lively debate between whether or not Agile and Traditional Project Management can co-exist in the workplace. Hear the two leading experts in their respective spaces discuss this relevant topic on the evolution of projects in the workplace. Does Agile replace Project Management? Can the development environment really be successful without Agile? Get your answers on 1/8 on the Work/Life Balance.