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  • "managerial frameworks..." - it's important to remember the primary motivating purpose of management is to maximise profits. The idea that Agile supersedes adversarial commercial relations between various parties is nonsense and is marketing hype of the most risible sort. "Iron-clad contracts" first arose when companies tried to outsource the manning of their IT functions (to maximise profits) and found that the adversarial relations with external management (who have their own separate profit maximisation imperative) caused dysfunction and increased cost.
    – Steve
    Commented Mar 15, 2020 at 12:17
  • I would disagree with you. The primary motivating purpose of management, within mature organisations, is not to simply maximise profits. Management levels are intended to develop people and work on systems. Developing people would be to get the right people to do the right work, using correct methods with the right levels of professionalism and discretion. Working on systems would be influencing factors that contribute to patterns, events and interactions within the organisation - supporting growth, guiding decision making and achieving goals. "Managerial Frameworks" try to support this.
    – David 'the bald ginger'
    Commented Apr 29, 2020 at 11:56
  • It's possible for management to have goals besides maximising profit, I only emphasised it was their primary goal. My main point was to emphasise that iron-clad contracts exist to control the adversarial relations between two organisations and their profit-seeking management, and Agile does not change or replace those relations. The main innovation of Agile is that it transfers risk of failure back to the client, and encourages them not to evaluate certain risks or costs that would normally be evaluated (and transferred to the supplier) in a traditional contract.
    – Steve
    Commented Apr 29, 2020 at 13:34