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Title: Agile Contracts
Proposer: ewan_milne
Type: Tutorial
Duration: 45 minutes
Description:
The industry standard Fixed Price contract has been around for a long
time, and continues to be a popular means of defining contracts for
development projects, despite being based on the same assumptions
about being able to predict the future, and produce software according
to a pre-defined plan that the Agile movement has gone a long way to
breaking down in the last decade.
Suppliers often face a struggle to engage customers in a way which
minimises contract negotiation and allows real collaboration to begin.
Time and materials contracts are often used, but are not the ideal
solution for either party. So what is the best way forward for those
on both sides of the negotiation table? In this session I will explore
some ideas for how to define contracts or run a procurement process in
an agile manner, in a way which better supports customer and supplier
collaboration towards shared goals.
This session will be run as a tutorial, with the possible addition of
a discussion session: I do not claim to have the answers to the
questions I’m raising, and so may round off with an informal panel:
this will depend on getting hold of participants
Roger: Yes. I suspect it will be of interest to those with either external or 'internal' markets.
Asti: I've seen this question come up several times on various forums. I'd attend