Win the workWin the work: Contract award…
The folder called TENDER
The bid's promise goes into a folder called TENDER, next to the cake photos.
Stage 3 · Get ready · Stop 3 of 8
The plan grows up
The back alley's bill so far: 49 weeks · See the bill
The information · The promise the bid was won with
I was the promise the bid was won with. Now I have to grow up: the real team, the real dates, and put somewhere everyone can work to me.
The wrong way
Opened since
A month in, nobody has opened the promise. The cake photos have been opened quite a lot.
Nobody updates it
It still names the bid team, and three people who've since left. One of them has left the industry and opened a café.
DesignDesign: Month two…
Three answers
Designer Alex's firm asks which naming rules to use. Three people give three answers, from three versions of the promise. One is from the last job.
We did
Marcus, the client's project manager, reads the old promise out loud to Sam, the firm's information manager.
Marcus: This says you'll appoint an information manager.
Sam: We did. It's me.
Backwards
That weekend, Sam writes down the plan the job has actually been running on. Backwards.
The plan everyone worked to was never written down. The one that was written down, nobody worked to.
+2 weeks on the back alley's bill: A promise nobody updated after award: three answers to every question, and a lost weekend writing it backwards.