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Creating Contracts That Enable Great Product Ownership and Teamwork

Perhaps you’ve asked yourself whether the concept of contracting is compatible with an Agile way of working. Perhaps you wonder why you should care about contracts at all. Well, you should be concerned with contracts if you are a Product Owner. It turns out that entrepreneurial Product Owners need to do something with contracts more often than they would like. It doesn’t happen often that a Product Owner creates a contract, and it’s unlikely for a Product Owner to manage the contract details. However, it happens regularly that Product Owners influence the contracts for the following reasons:

  • They develop and deliver products (or projects) for customers, based on a contract. ...

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