Client Communication over Contract Negotiation?
Today, I spent the afternoon with a client from a large state agency here in Denver. We were onsite for a project kickoff meeting. At the meeting, we discussed several pertinent issues about the project, including our use of agile practices to manage the project. The client and our new employer are very open to our use of agile practices. However, the question arose about how to handle changing requirements over the course of the project. Now, I should state up front that this is a fixed-price contract. Essentially, we all agreed that for most changes, we would work within the bounds of Scrum and use a prioritized backlog to move items in and out of scope. However, for large scale changes to the requirements, we would probably need to use more formal channels like change orders. We discussed this for a bit, and everyone felt comfortable with this decision in the end.
Rachel Weston
