AGILE PRACTICE
In an agile practice, the value of the work is billed rather than the time spent. This value-billing model puts a value on project deliverables, which have been previously negotiated on the Definition of Done (DoD) and reflected on an Agile Legal Service Agreement between client and attorney.
In 2001, seventeen software developers met at a ski resort in Utah and gave birth to the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. This document identifies key values and twelve Principles of Agile Software which have been practiced and defined in methods such as Kanban, Scrum, extreme programming and pair programming, focusing efforts on an iterative (rather than sequential) delivery of products and services.
Within this framework, agile pricing tries to balance traditional compensation mechanisms and adapt them to allow an acceptable risk for both client and supplier, as well as taking into account flexibility and continuous collaboration.
Agile methods, first developed for software programming, were later adopted by many professions in their daily activities in order to benefit from adaptability, resilience, customer-centricity and ability to change quickly in a competitive environment.
We firmly believe that the delivery of legal services benefits from agile principles and certain agile methods. In addition to providing tools to optimize the workflow of the legal practice, with an agile approach, collaboration tools between client and attorney are put in place right from the start in order to agree on the DoD of the legal service and focus on producing results early and continuously.
This project management approach enables clients to develop and deploy products, services and procesess that are "Legal by design", while reducing the risks of items having to be re-done entirely, but at the same time permitting changing priorities.
Let’s work together under an Agile Legal Service Agreement tailored to your specific needs!