Scrum.org Community Podcast Bringing Procurement into the Agile Product Operating Model
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Sep 4, 2025 Mirko Kleiner, President of the Lean Agile Procurement Alliance and author of Lean Agile Procurement, joins Simon Reindl, a Professional Scrum Trainer and consultant, to tackle the integration of procurement in Agile practices. They discuss the clash between traditional procurement and Agile’s iterative nature, advocating for early engagement and transparency among teams. Highlighting the benefits of goal-oriented contracts and cross-functional collaboration, they provide insights on transforming procurement processes for better agility and improved outcomes.
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Procurement Is Critical To Agile Success
- Procurement can make or break an organization's move to product-based agility when third-party relationships are involved.
- Excluding procurement forces organizations into rigid plans that block iterative product delivery.
Website Migration Revealed Procurement Friction
- Scrum.org's website migration to Drupal needed multiple third-party vendors and highlighted procurement friction.
- Suppliers demanded fixed, upfront requirements which hindered the incremental approach.
Procurement Assumes False Certainty
- Procurement still assumes buyers can fully specify needs up front, which clashes with product discovery realities.
- Modern sourcing should accept uncertainty and treat requirements as hypotheses to test.
