Rapid Lorna – Agile Acquisition Blog
"I wasn't built for comfort—I was built for speed." — "Bad for Good"
How often have you heard me say that the cool thing about getting older is that you’ve lived long enough to recognize certain longer-term patterns? That’s the advantage of age and experience—that you have a larger quantity of data, so you start to recognize recurring structures. Some patterns, I haven’t lived long enough yet to […]
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I’m tired. No. No, I’m weary—bone weary. I will seriously, totally, completely lose it if one more person asks me if they should choose an Other Transaction agreement or a FAR-based contract. No, I mean it. Part of me doesn’t want to be so negative, but I’m just at my wit’s end. Why does this […]
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In preparing for 2025, I’ve been working on “DOGE”ing my personal and professional lives. See what I did there? Turned “DOGE” into a verb so I can talk about efficiency tools. Except in my own life, the acronym is for “Department of Goal Efficiency.” Or maybe “Department of Genius Efficiency” if I’m in a mood. […]
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I’ve seen some misconceptions floating around about Government contracts—specifically, the idea that the Government can cancel or defund contracts whenever it feels like it for the sake of efficiency. Spoiler alert: It can’t. Not unless some laws get changed first. I’m not writing so much to educate my Contracting colleagues as I am to enlighten […]
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Efficiency in the Federal Government is a hot topic since the Election. Without weighing in on politics, I do have a concern that I think we need to keep in mind. Especially those of the “doing more with less” philosophy that I’ve heard for my entire career in Acquisition. Maybe we should be “doing less […]
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I’m all for leaning into your strengths and doing what you do best in Contracting and Acquisition. I don’t believe you have to be “well-rounded” and work in areas that aren’t suited to your work personality or strengths, but you do need to be open to the very real fact that there may be other […]
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Warning: AI and Contracting analogy I haven’t seen yet. If you’ve been online with others in your field for longer than 5 minutes, you’ve probably seen colleagues arguing over how wrong different AI models are. Some won’t do math for you, none will give you 50,000 words of perfection in one click, some won’t give […]
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That metric may not be what you think. How often do I see that with lead times, particularly where Contracting gets the blame for how long it takes to get from need to solution delivery? I got a parking ticket last week—in front of my house. I don’t have a driveway, so I have no […]
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