Right.
Our audit here wasn't really looking at the procurement process. We were starting to look at whether or not they were applying “agile” in a good way and making sure that they were on the right track. We found that there were a couple of gaps here,,so definitely some training is needed.
If you're going to embark on agile procurement processes for complex IT solutions where agile really blends well to a complex IT solution, where you need some of that private sector expertise to meld with the business needs, you do need to worry about fairness and transparency. That's why we highlighted the need to have better fairness, the use of the fairness monitor, a better ability to demonstrate how fairness issues were resolved going forward.
Agile involves many vendors and trying to keep many vendors engaged as you move through in order to try things that might not work and to adjust and go back. It is a different way of procuring and one that requires different skills. That's why training is important.