Presenter: Jay Kash
Participants: Jay Kesh, Debbie Mesa, Jackie Baker, Janet Stearns, Tasha, Alexis Martin, Fred Mastropasque, Brian Attuso, Phillip Cassea, Rick Regueira
Notes:
Coordinating with vendors – Pain Points
- Not the right vendor – vendor is using waterfall
- How do we fit sprints into a project plan
- Aligning deliverable
- When is the right time to sign statement of work so you and the vendor are ready at the same time
- Communication lacking between business and IT
How to Improve
- Increase trust, sharing, transparency
- Educate the vendors on how and why you work in an agile way
- Agreements and SOW to include things like vendor participating in refinement, sprint reviews and allocating a specific amount of time to be available to participate with the team
- Size the work and ask the vendor for priority as things change
- Include vendor in story mapping
- Have multiple, smaller SOW – one per phase
- Educate you legal people (contract writers) on how to create agile contracts
- Shorter contracts – iterative