InfoQ Homepage Contracts & Negotiation Content on InfoQ
Articles
RSS Feed-
/articles/total-talent-management/en/smallimage/logo6.jpg)
Total Talent Management: A Systems Approach to Agility
With increasing corporate reliance on contract and temporary workers come more challenges for HR departments. Core HRM responsibilities like training/development, compensation/benefits, and mobility normally apply solely to standard company employees. Total talent management aim to do HRM for the total workforce, including temporary workers, contractors and consultants.
-
/articles/shipping-to-partner-partnership/en/smallimage/logo-2.jpg)
Shipping-to-Partner or Partnership?
Due to globalization and supply chain management, a single company cannot operate on its own anymore. This article helps you to develop an insight in the current ways that your partnerships are running. By defining models and explaining characteristics of these models you get better insight in the relationships with your partners. More important, you will learn to benefit better from partnerships.
-
/articles/remain-agile-with-contract/en/smallimage/logo-agile.png)
How to Remain Agile When You Have to Sign a Contract?
Agile development based on a contract that has been accepted by lawyers seems impossible. The nature of traditional purchasing and contracting processes does not match the Agile principles. This is a case story of how a supplier cooperated with a client to develop a huge project in an Agile way, by cutting it into smaller pieces and prepare a matching contract based on mutual trust.
-
/articles/the-curse-of-the-change-control-mechanism/en/smallimage/small image.jpg)
The Curse of the Change Control Mechanism
Unprecedented levels of change caused by the pace of innovation are stretching traditional contract models to the breaking point. As more organizations adopt Agile and Lean for the development of innovative/complex products and services, new contract models are needed that accommodate change. The Evolutionary Contract Model, based on Agile / Lean principles, offers promise as a possible solution.
-
/articles/agile-contracts/en/smallimage/AgileContract_V1.jpg)
Agile Contracts
The traditional Waterfall model fits nicely with the way companies buy things: requirements are drawn up, a supplier quotes a price, and everyone signs a legally binding agreement. Contracts written this way seldom offer the freedom to work using an Agile approach. This article examines four separate models available to suppliers and customers for establishing contracts for Agile work.
-
/articles/agile-team-fixed-price-contract/en/smallimage/image_contract-clock.jpg)
Agile Team Meets a Fixed Price Contract
Fixed price contracts are evil - this is what can often be heard from agilists. On the other hand those contracts are reality which many agile teams have to face. But what if we try to tame it instead of fighting against it? How can a company execute this kind of contract using agile practices to achieve better results with lower risk? This article will try to answer those questions.