Scrum contractual provisions
"We also enter into 4 contractual modifications with the customer, which gives them the option, should they want to do so, to collaborate with the development teams during the project. These 4 contractual provisions are:
I don't quite understand point 3 above. Here's my version: So that we can stay flexible enough to meet any evolving priorities, we will divide the work into one month work cycles (called “Sprints” in Scrum project management terminology). Before each Sprint, you are free to add, change and re-prioritise tasks. A Sprint consists of the tasks that we believe are achievable and will deliver enough functionality for a useable product. A 30% down-payment is payable at the beginning of each work cycle. You will be free to cancel the contract at any point; you forfeit only the down-payment and pay any outstanding expenses (such as purchases for hardware or software incurred on your behalf).
- For any part of the requirements that the team hasn't started working on yet, the customer is free to change them with anything of equal value.
- For any part of the requirements that the team hasn't started working on yet, the customer is free to reprioritise them
- For any part of the work that has been delivered as increments already, the customer is free to ask the teams to implement them in addition to any call for implementations and they will be charged time and material to do so.
- Since the team has given the customer, as part of the proposal, the list of requirements of the project in a prioritised list by value, the customer can often see the system they want emerging and may feel satisfied before the entire set of requirements are developed. In this case they can cancel the contract at this point in time and take delivery of the system that is adequate to their needs and is only charged some penalty (such as 25% of unbilled revenues) to take care of any overhead that the team has absorbed by entering into the contract.
I don't quite understand point 3 above. Here's my version: So that we can stay flexible enough to meet any evolving priorities, we will divide the work into one month work cycles (called “Sprints” in Scrum project management terminology). Before each Sprint, you are free to add, change and re-prioritise tasks. A Sprint consists of the tasks that we believe are achievable and will deliver enough functionality for a useable product. A 30% down-payment is payable at the beginning of each work cycle. You will be free to cancel the contract at any point; you forfeit only the down-payment and pay any outstanding expenses (such as purchases for hardware or software incurred on your behalf).