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Software Development Contract Standards: How to Sign Win-Win Contracts with Vendors

Written by STX Next | Aug 28, 2020 8:22:12 AM

This article is based on our recent webinar with Michał Jackowski of DSK Legal and our very own Paweł Dudko; huge thanks to them for sharing their knowledge!

Watch the webinar here...

...and read the recap below:

The future is hard to predict these days. If you’re a tech leader you probably need to make big decisions fast—but in a way that still protects your business. Postponing decisions is a decision in itself—and a risky one.

This definitely applies to software development projects, where time to market can mean all the difference. More and more often, tech leaders are turning to external agencies to fill their development capacity gaps. In such circumstances, signing a software development contract is an unavoidable step.

Knowing software development contract standards helps you decide faster and with greater certainty about what should be in your contract, so you can sign it sooner, kick off your project on time and ship your product before the competition.

From our experience, managers are now looking at contracts differently and some clauses that were “red flags” before the pandemic are now heavily considered.

That’s why we prepared this guide for you so you can know what to expect from your software development contract, which parts are “industry standard” and which ones are often subject to negotiation.