Using Agile for long term vendor contract
Hi
Our organisation is about to embark on a 5 year contract with a major vendor for enterprise software delivery. They are a major software organisation, and we are using 5 years as it makes MUCH more sense financially.
Of course, the challenge is that requirements change over years, so what we are want now may not be the same in 4 years.
Any ideas on how to tackle this and make change a positive aspect to this deal
From pure theoretical Scrum point of view, it would be nice to be able to terminate the contract after every single Sprint Review, if the progress is not satisfactory / there is no more work to be done. Of course this is probably not the case in a 5-year long contract :/
What measures will be in place to handle situations I mentioned above?
There was a burst of activity in the agile community on this matter about 5 years ago.
Gabrielle Benefield and Susan Atkinson:
http://www.flexiblecontracts.com/
I have an old post:
Kane Mar has this:
https://scrumology.com/an-overview-of-agile-contracts/