In this chapter: what is a working code, why it is important, considerations about how a supplier might view the idea of a working code, how to introduce it and get it agreed to, checklist of possible code statements
What Do We Mean by Working Code?
The contract clearly defines what the supplier will deliver to the customer, to what timescales, to what quality, and to what costs. So by the time we get to this point in the lifecycle—post sourcing, integrating, and moving toward deliver—there should be clarity about the what.
While the sourcing discussions and meetings may have covered aspects of the future relationship, in reality, in most cases the focus would have been on the tangible, hard, legal and ...
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