by m93718 | Mar 23, 2020 | Innovation
Disrupting Acquisition Blog The Game-Changer We’ve Been Expecting Isn’t a Technology “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’” ― Fred Rogers We...
by m93718 | Mar 3, 2020 | Sustainment
Disrupting Acquisition Blog Don’t Forget the Minimum Viable Sustainment (MVS) for that Minimum Viable Product (MVP)! I have been meaning to introduce this new term, Minimum Viable Sustainment (MVS), into our acquisition practitioner lexicon for some time now. ...
by m93718 | Feb 19, 2020 | Rapid Acquisition
Disrupting Acquisition Blog Why We’re Confused about Agile vs Rapid To know where we’re going, it helps to know how you got to where you are. We often look back at some years-old or decades-old or even centuries-old point of view and make frownie faces because...
by m93718 | Feb 12, 2020 | Mindset
Disrupting Acquisition Blog The Acquisition Redemption? It feels like soft mud under your feet and cool rain on your eyelids and a crack of thunder above you. It feels like freedom. We talk a lot about the culture in Acquisition and how to change it. Basically, we...
by m93718 | Jan 23, 2020 | Innovation, Mindset
Disrupting Acquisition Blog The Pentagon’s Missing Whiteboards One day as I sat in a meeting in a Pentagon conference room, it hit me. There are no whiteboards in this room. In fact, most of the conference rooms lack a whiteboard. While individual offices and...
