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Agile Contracting

Duration: 
1-Day
Location: 
On-Site
Trainer(s): 
Brian Tucker
Creating win-win contracts for application development which enable agility on both sides

Training info

Course overview

Outsource without Compromising Agility or Increasing Risk

As Agile Software Development practices become more and more popular both customers and suppliers are looking to find ways to have more agile contracts. Contracts that reflect and exploit the benefits of an agile way-of-working on both sides of the relationship.

This hands-on workshop introduces and applies a number of simple but powerful tools to enable customers and suppliers to establish effective contracts that reflect their level of agility without constraining or compromising that of their partners.

Available as a private on-client-site delivery.

Benefits

  • Understand how agile contracting will affect all those involved in your organization including the managers, the developers, the sales people, the lawyers and those in procurement
  • Understand the different contracting models and when and where to use them.
  • Understand the capabilities that the customer needs to support the different contracting models and how suppliers can help or hinder the agility of their customers.
  • Understand the capabilities that the supplier needs to support the different contracting models and how suppliers can help or hinder the agility of their customers.
  • Understand the dimensions of agile contracts and their relationship to setting up and governing agile contracts.
  • Understand how to use contracts to manage risk without compromising agility
  • Be able to set up the appropriate contracts for your organization
Itinerary
Training itinerary: 

Workshop Content

The agile contracting mind-set

  • Who’s affected and how they need to change their thinking

The three dimensions of agile contracts

  • Placing orders – what you buy and how you buy it
  • Constraints and Targets – what’s fixed and what’s variable
  • Collaboration, Governance and Payments – working together, tracking progress and releasing funds

Contracting models and their applicability

  • Get hands on with a dozen or more specific contracting models

Governance and staged payments

  • From the customer-side how to monitor and reward the work of your suppliers
  • From the supplier-side how to adjust and adapt to change on the customer side and release funds without waterfall milestones

Impediments to agile contracts and how to overcome them

  • Explore the barriers to establishing an agile contract and identify ways to overcome them.
Other course info
Audience: 
  • Project Managers / Program Managers / Portfolio Managers
  • Product Managers
  • Development Managers
  • Procurement
  • Sales Managers
  • and anyone involved in setting up software development contracts.
What you receive: 

Take-away a comprehensive deck of contracting model cards to help you work with your partners to select the appropriate contracting models for your circumstances

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