Echo - Taking an ACAT 1 program from an idea without staffing or funding to delivering the first product in 18 months.

In this Echo episode  of "Acquisition Practices Worth Emulating" COL Rich Haggerty discusses how his team when charged with an ACAT 1 program without either defined requirements, staffing or funding delivered products in 18 months. Key points made include: (1) Transparency in communications led to trust and freedom of action, (2) Early prototyping brought key information forward sooner, (3) Documentation was reduced to only items that led to capability delivery, (4) PM kept people without the authority to say yes from saying no and (5) Team culture was key to success.