agile projects and suppliers
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This is a presentation I made for a company that was going Agile, but had issues about handling the contract negotiation with suppliers in project.TRANSCRIPT
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@MartinVinther
Agile projects and
suppliers
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Who am I?
Martin Nymann Vinther
• Project Manager on 12.
year
• Consultant at Danske
Bank for 5 years
• Using Agile methods
• Small - big projects
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Agile projects and
supplier
management• In agile projects we want to be able to
change plans and priorities all the
time...
• Suppliers wants to have plans and
budget in place 1 year ahead
• So how do we deal with it?
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Agile concept• When we work in an
agile project we
want to be able to
plan for only one
sprint at the time.
• Some of the back-
log items could be
depending on
deliveries from
other department
(Internal suppliers)
• We want to aim for
having a flexible
supplier that can
support iterative
plans
Sometimes it helps the supplier if we try
to predict and plan in releases
(But this is not really Agile)
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One Single Team
• In the my current project we have had great success
with making agreements on resources lend into the
project instead of trying to negotiate a contract and
fix our development plans
• The resources from the supplier could be part of the
team for a shorter or longer period
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• Direct and smooth
communication
• No Management
overhead
• Optimal knowledge
transfer to the team
• Minimize the risk
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At a certain
level the
project team
will learn to
develop in the
suppliers
domian
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If it's not
possible to
have 1. Project
team... Then we must
return to the good
old school ISA
contract and try to
plan the
sprints/releases
ahead. (How much
ahead depends on the
Supplier)
But you need to be
aware that the
Product Owner
properly will change
his/her mind over
time
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Start early…… with building up a
good and trustful
relationship with the
supplier (the
developers)
We have found that
it’s very powerful to
start out with a
proof of concept. This
will build trust
between supplier and
project. And also we
will be much better
at planning the actual
work
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Key take aways• Be carefull not to make to many
detailed and static agreements with
the suppliers...
”Flexibility is good”
• Explain the situation to the supllier -
they will properly know the agile
concept already
• This is somethig that is wearth fighting
for
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Questions?Fell free to contact me
+45 2989 5310
@MartinVinther