11 CUSTOMER COLLABORATION OVER CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS

11.1 BUSINESS PEOPLE AND DEVELOPERS MUST WORK TOGETHER

This section discusses the Agile principle ‘Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.’

In today’s complex knowledge-based IT-driven world, no single delivery discipline (e.g. analyst, coder, designer) can be successful working on their own. To achieve successful product delivery, collaboration is essential.

Collaboration delivers the following benefits:

  • Teams can understand the evolving vision of the business, allowing them to continually assess whether the goal of a time-box is still aligned to the business need and is still deliverable within the time-box.
  • The customer can effectively communicate ...

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