Chapter 5 Commissioning

DOI: 10.4324/9781003427766-5

Now that you know what you’re building and have agreed a price, you’re now ready to enter into an agreement to do the actual work. This chapter represents the end of the first part of the book where you’re deciding what to buy and who to buy it from – in the next chapter we start the second part of the book where we look at how to manage the successful delivery of the project.

The Contract

At the end of the introduction to the book, I added a quick note that nothing in this book constitutes legal advice. I’ll reiterate this if I may – I am not a lawyer, and any advice that I provide in this book is designed to be guidance to increase your chances of a successful complex IT systems delivery. ...

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