How to sell a traditional client on an agile project plan
Tue, 2009-03-03 04:23 — Arin Sime
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Level: Practicing
You’re negotiating a project with a client or internal customer, but they balk when you don’t present a fixed budget and a predefined list of requirements. How do you convince them that the benefits of an Agile team outweigh a top heavy and fragile requirements document? Based on Agile experience with government and commercial clients, we will discuss ways to make your customer feel comfortable with process changes that don’t always result in the same set of documents they are used to.
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- Insight into different types of clients, and what they often expect
- Strategies for finding a middle ground between what they are used to, and the freedom you need to implement Agile
- Ideas for dealing with customer expectations throughout the project
- Real world examples of how to deal with clients who require processes that are not Agile
- Examples of how to structure a proposal to incorporate Agile methodology
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