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OK folks, I’ve done some banging around and received some excellent links from others about agile practices and fixed-price contracts.  Looks like I’m not the only one asking this question.  Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be too much good news out there, but here are some links to other articles on the topic:

The Dire Consequences of Fixed-Price Contracts on Dr. Dobb’s by Scott Ambler

Fixed Price, Fixed Date Contracts at Engage by Ken Schwaber

Agile Fixed Price Contracting on InfoQ by Deborah Hartman

Fixed Price Contract & Agile Software Development: an “experience in process” report by Christine Moore of Caribou Lake Software  Read the rest of this post

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This week I had to deliver a talk about Enterprise Scrum at a corporate offsite.  We were trying to sell Scrum to our entire organization.  After the presentation, the questions starting flowing.  Most, I could easily answer.  However, the tricky question of how to work a fixed-price fixed-date contract in an agile manner came up.

Scott Ambler had a good post on this topic and he states that:  Read the rest of this post

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Dave Bouwman sent me a great post today about Agile vs. Traditional Development Cost Models.  It seems the boys over at LosTechies.com have done some good thinking about the value vs. cost argument when it comes to agile practices in software development.  Check out the post at: http://www.lostechies.com/blogs/joe_ocampo/archive/2007/09/20/agile-vs-traditional-development-cost-models-maybe.aspx

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Website: http://edgehopper.com
About: Zen guy, creative mind, Apple fan boy, tech geek and most importantly, husband & father. "Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." (The Dalai Lama said that...not me).   For more about Chris, check out the About PageSee Authors Posts (234). Follow Chris on Twitter Add comment

Try this: Go to Google and search on GIS Project Management. You’ll get back about 2,490,000 results (give or take a few). Now start clicking on them and see how long it takes you to find a result that remotely resembles an Agile approach to GIS Project Management. I got about 140 results in before I gave up. Notice, I didn’t search on GIS application development or some similar search term. I specifically wanted to know how people view all types of GIS Project Management. There was a reason I tried this search (and no, it wasn’t due to sheer boredom at work) .  Read the rest of this post