Digital strategy management

Successful Agile Despite Lawyers

Digital Strategy Management

Digital Strategy Management ¦ 15 September 2016

Agenda

• what is Agile?

• legal issues

• flexible contracts

• commercial challenges

• barriers to Agile

• benefits of Agile


Sequential v Iterative

Delivery


Sequential v Iterative

Delivery

Delivery Delivery Delivery Delivery


Legal issues

• lawyers like certainty: outcome, cost, time, etc

• features specified “up front”

• “Cone of Uncertainty”

• silo mentality

• “Lose-Lose” contracts


Charges & cost certainty

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x2

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x4Requirements Detailed Design Product Build


Legal certainties

• lawyers like certainty: outcome, cost, time, etc

• features specified “up front”

• “Cone of Uncertainty”

• silo mentality

• “Lose-Lose” contracts


Flexible contracts

• collaborative

• adaptive

• recognises change

• outcomes orientated

• requires cultural change


Commercial Challenges

• Preserving balance between flexibility and certainty

• Agreement on scope

• Collaboration

o employee empowerment

o IP ownership

• Risk and liability

• Consequences of interim acceptance

• Governance and control measures

o performance monitoring – velocity, cadence, etc

o quality control

• Commercial models – controlling the cost


Barriers to Agile

• Requirement for legal certainty

• Myths

o lack of financial control

o uncertainty of outcome

• Lack of commercial models

o Norwegian PS-2000 contract

o Dutch K03 contract

o GDS DOS

o DSDM Agile Framework Template

• Need for cultural change


Benefits of Agile

• Faster, better, cheaper?


Questions?

Stewart JamesPartner

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+44 (0)7813 019002

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