Ten Agile Contracts

Are you looking for better results from your software vendors? Are you looking for more flexibility and responsiveness from your external partners? Are you trying to lower your costs of procurement? Or has your organization started an agile or digital transformation and you want your suppliers (or clients) to be as flexible and responsive as you are?

This book is for you if the following occurs in development efforts:

• Project risks go unchecked, leading to cost and schedule overruns
• Development efforts become “technical successes” but market failures
• Changing priorities cause delays and higher costs
• Inflexible contracts make it difficult to respond to changing conditions
• Change requests drive up the cost of development

Ten Contracts will take you from “cast-in-stone” contracts to more effective and collaborative approaches for responding to change, reducing waste, saving money, and creating the right results. This book will enable you to discover and understand:

• The real risks of product development
• How Scrum and “agile” methods reduce and manage risks
• How Scrum and agile methods work
• How to align contracts with the goals of procurement and successful product development.

I close with a list of recommendations for your next contract based on my experience with million-dollar Scrum projects. And check out the glossary for a list of over 60 commonly used terms in the Agile community.

Choose the version that is best for you:

• PDF only (also available in German): CHF 49.95
• Book only: CHF 69.–
• Autographed Book and PDF: CHF 69.–
• Autographed Book, PDF, and a one-hour consultation: with Peter B. Stevens: CHF 625.– CHF 325.–

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