Use this checklist of legal considerations and issues to help you prepare a Software Development Agreement. The checklist contains a number of items which should be addressed in the agreement, such as:

• who owns the final product
  
• obligations of developer and client to one another
  
• how will payments be made
  
• procedure for testing and acceptance of the product

and other matters. This is a generic MS Word document, and is not specific to any country or region.