Rediscover the Agile Procurement & Contracting Symposium

The Agile Procurement & Contracting Symposium was our largest online symposium; 6 thought-leaders joined us to share their stories and insights on procuring services and creating agile contracts.

Rediscover the amazing talks and takeaways.

Case Studies

Hear from people who have gone through this journey already.

It’s never just an IT Project by Larry Cooper

Can you use Scrum to run a procurement process? That sounds easy enough as well. Except…no one on the team has experience using Scrum as part of a procurement. And the response of the Scrum coaches when asked to help is…it can’t be done.

Further Reading

Want to go deeper? Read (and watch) more details about specific areas of Business Agility.

Agile Procurement & Contracts by Dean Leffingwell

The move to Lean-Agile development challenges buyers and suppliers alike to find contract constructs that provide for the flexibility to support emerging requirements and designs.

Procurement on Disruption by Mirko Kleiner

With the lean procurement canvas and lean-agile procurement we offer a similar disruptive approach for procurement and partner management as the business model canvas.

Why lawyers don’t like Agile by Stewart James

Agile methodologies are anathema to lawyers and traditional contractual models emasculate flexibility, apportioning risk to the party most able to pay and creating an adversarial environment contrary to the principle of collaboration.

Agile Contracts a Template by Allan Kelly

In this presentation Allan Kelly will look at the key elements of an Agile contract and show how they can act as a filter for weeding out poor performers.

3 Ways To Restore Government Contracts for Agile Services by Manjit Singh

Based on experience working with government agencies, the talk presents 3 key elements needed in contracts to succeed with agile services and to realize value.