From the course: Running a Design Business: Designer-Client Agreements

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Managing an agreement

Managing an agreement

From the course: Running a Design Business: Designer-Client Agreements

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Managing an agreement

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Your approved Designer-Client Agreement gives both you and your client a roadmap for how the project will proceed from start to finish. It outlines how you'll work, provides points in the process for approvals and clearly indicates what you must deliver to the client; therefore, it's a handy document to use in managing your work. You may have noticed that I don't recommend that you include a schedule in your agreement; this is because it's the most changeable aspect of any design project. If a client misses a deadline and doesn't approve something as planned, your whole schedule can be blown, however, if due dates are written into your agreement, you are then contractually bound to meet that schedule. You don't want to be in breach of your own contracts, meaning failing to fulfill your agreement, so just make schedules a separate document. Maybe you're shaking your head now and saying my client forces me to include a schedule. Okay, well, if you can't talk them out of it, then by all…

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