Procurement Insights | Playlist

The award-winning success of the CKW Group is a striking lesson in how to achieve significant improvement in time-to-market with numerous other benefits.

Instead of defining all details yourself and expect the supplier will deliver, you ask the supplier to develop the concept of the solution in front of you.

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.

Many federal agencies are contracting for agile teams, but how has contracting changed to become more agile in execution.

Understanding outcomes, value and trust is the key to successfully building an agile contract.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Learn how USCIS is, not only contracting Agile teams, but also evolving procurement process to be more Agile.