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To manage contracts, you need to know how to read and understand contracts. This is a practical and "hands-on" manual to guide you through the contract whether you shall write, review or negotiate. This guide shares experience from many years of Contract Management practice. It includes a comprehensive supply and service example contract (part 2) derived from Telecom experience but useful for all branches. You can, but you don't need to read through every page, it is possible to jump directly to the parts of interest for your specific case. It is a tool for Contract Managers and other persons handling contracts occasionally or regularly.Helped by experience from the past, we will be more open and skilled to look forward and take the lead in adapting contracts and its management to the ever-changing future, rather than just practising the same trial and error all over again and again. The guide can also be of great help to developers of digital software and blockchain platforms as it explains what the contract must tell and how it shall be understood, risks and mitigations. That is something which will determine what a blockchain platform for contracts must provide. Read, look at the example contract to find the parts you need, check the step-by-step guide regarding this part and use the guide as a checklist. Have you covered everything needed? When you understand – then you can be understood.Part 1, The “Guide”Part 2,The Example Contract Part 3, The Presentation - a short introduction to Contract Management