Contract review

What Is a Contract?  an agreement between two or more parties to the doing or to provide a product or service.

 Systematic activities carried out by the customers or Developer before signing the contract.  To ensure that requirements for quality are adequately defined, free from ambiguity, documented, and can be realized by the Developer. What is the Contract Review?

Contract Review Stages:  Proposal draft review Reviews the proposal prior to submission to the potential customer This includes customer’s requirement documents, cost and resource estimates, existing contracts or contract drafts of the supplier with partners and subcontractors  Contract draft review Reviews the contract draft prior to signing Review on the basis of the proposal and the understanding (including changes) reached during the contract negotiation sessions

Contract review activities : To make sure that the following activities have been satisfactorily carried out:  Clarification and documentation of the customer’s requirements  Review of the project’s schedule and resource requirement estimates  Evaluation of the professional staff’s capacity to carry out the proposed project

Contract review activities :  Evaluation of the customer’s capacity to fulfill his commitments ( payment of financial dues)  Evaluation and identified of development risks  Specified Formal aspects of the relationship between the customer and the software company  Identify alternatives approaches for carrying out the project  Identify Protection of proprietary rights

Contract review activities :  No unclarified issues remain in the contract draft  All understandings reached subsequent to the proposal are correctly documented  No “new” changes, additions, or omissions have entered the contract draft

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