Composing a Proposal

Several years of looking at customer requirements and propositioning them solutions inserted in to proposal documents has made me somewhat rectilinear about the principles of commitment, business gratitude and the attitude one must have towards building proposals.

I mean, it is not enough to quote scope of work, deliverable, project plans, milestones, budget estimates and terms, conditions of executing the proposed. It should also contain the vision, approach to solutions, why the solution would be ideal and if nothing else, at least a commitment to endure the proposal through the selection stage.

A critical mishaps happens when everything is assumed to be just work and no work is fun, unless you are doing something that you cherish and can focus, irrespective of circumstances that surround you.

All I am trying to do when I am sending out a proposal is to be through, sincere, dedicated and clear as much as possible while making any commitment.

Proposals when accepted are directly converted in to contracts. What follows through the proposal is enormous amount of actual work.

Thus, I never celebrate when I get the work, I used to think I will celebrate when the work gets done, but then, no work usually gets done. It always gets extended, some projects running in to several months or years.

Wonderful people demand some of the most interesting business requirements to be fulfilled, its almost unnerving to tell them NO, because they would also pay for that.

So, where does my proposal provision the change request handling? and under what circumstances additional billing needs be invoked?

Life surrounds your work, you surround your thoughts to work and otherwise... (workaholic) so it is essential to be able to break work in to phases of releases, allowing rooms for benefit reaping on successful delivery of projects and eventually be able to celebrate.

Its been months since I have been to movies or even had a decent coffee at a cafe, with no purpose to be there, other than to relax...

I want my proposal to allow me to live my life with comfort, ensure profitability to the company, value for money to the customer and perhaps take me to heaven for the good deeds done...