Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

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independent team, it's getting the right people in
the room at the beginning of the VE study to frame
what is the project, what are the functional
requirements, what may be things that didn't make it
because the budget was set at a certain limit, and
say well maybe we can move this one up if we give up
this other thing and help to frame the conversation
around what are the values, and bringing in somebody
from the bureau or post that is going to be an end
user.
Some of the more successful VE studies had
them come in from post during the IPR or the
integrated planning review to sit in at the VE study
at the beginning, sometimes in the middle, going and
listening to the ideas the VE team was coming up
with, and then at the end to listen to why they came
up with recommendations they did. And the VE team
will, when they develop their idea, they will give
you both pros and cons, what happened, why would you
think about doing it. They are not designing it. I
mean, when you give them a week, they can't do the
design, as you know, but they can come up with the
ideas to help.
MS. SORG: On that same track and I think
this is, again, going back to a spin, not a spin so
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