Adopt Agile Practices

Accelerate Accelerate Home Accelerate Culture Accelerate Requirements Accelerate System Design Accelerate Execution Accelerate Contracting Agile is a set of software development principles that emerged in 2001 after 17 industry leaders created the Agile Manifesto to...

Lean on Me

Accelerate Accelerate Home Accelerate Culture Accelerate Requirements Accelerate System Design Accelerate Execution Accelerate Contracting Lean emphasizes seeing the whole, including the end-to-end view of the delivery pipeline – not constrained by organizational...

Go Beyond the FAR with an OT

Accelerate Accelerate Home Accelerate Culture Accelerate Requirements Accelerate System Design Accelerate Execution Accelerate Contracting What is an “Other Transaction?”  Other Transactions (OTs) are procurement instruments other than contracts, grants, or...

Speeding with the FAR

Accelerate Accelerate Home Accelerate Culture Accelerate Requirements Accelerate System Design Accelerate Execution Accelerate Contracting Ignorance of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) is a greater barrier to government innovation than the FAR itself.To help...

Do Just Enough Documentation

Accelerate Accelerate Home Accelerate Culture Accelerate Requirements Accelerate System Design Accelerate Execution Accelerate Contracting Do Just Enough Documentation Documentation can consume a significant amount of a program’s schedule. To accelerate a program, the...

Minimize Document Coordination

Accelerate Accelerate Home Accelerate Culture Accelerate Requirements Accelerate System Design Accelerate Execution Accelerate Contracting Coordinating program documentation with many functional organizations at multiple levels of the agency adds considerable time to...