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- Procurement Leadership NZ 2019 Conference
- Super saver price $2399 + GST
- Super saver ends on 15 Mar
- Last minute price $2699 + GST
- 29 - 30 Apr 2019
- Workshop(s)
- Super saver price from $1199 + GST
- Super saver ends on 15 Mar
- Last minute price from $1499 + GST
- 1 May 2019
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Applying an Agile approach to Procurement for the modern business environment
1 May 2019 | 9.00am - 5.00pmIn the modern business environment, organisations are being expected to achieve more with less. This is where procurement can add tremendous value and applying an Agile approach to your procurement processes can add even more. Procurement is critical to shoring up an organisation’s bottom line, enhancing operational efficiencies and improving sustainability. With Erika’s engaging and informative workshop, you will learn how integrating Agile can transform your organisation’s Procurement, and master practices to take away and action in the office
- What Agile is, and what it isn’t
- Uncovering the background to Agile and breaking down the jargon
- Exploring key Agile approaches
- Kanban – what it is and why it works
- Scrum in a nutshell – what are key roles, responsibilities, events, outcomes and metrics?
- What are the opportunities Agile presents for procurement?
- Putting theory into practice - applying Agile to Procurement

Erika Barden
Head of Agile
Frank Innovation and Transformation
With a strong background in project and change management, Erika's expertise ranges from bringing products to market in a lean start-up environment, to assisting multi-national mergers. During her 20+ years’ as a practitioner, Erika has led successful transformations in NZ, the UK and Ireland. Frustration with traditional delivery models led Erika to research alternative approaches and resulted in an A+ thesis on ‘How leaders enable the successful delivery of Agile projects’. She is an energetic advocate of all things Agile, and helps a range of companies in the public and private sector adopt better ways of working.