Alliance agreements often contain clauses in which the alliance Participants 'agree-to-agree' certain matters. For example, they may agree that the alliance board will agree its governing procedures at its first meeting or the alliance Participants may agree that the project timeline will be agreed at a later point. The clauses are designed to give the alliance the flexibility to deal with issues case-by-case. Generally, Participants may not view the agreement to agree clauses as posing a legal risk. On the basis of the general behavioural commitments of the alliance Participants and the cooperative alliance 'culture' which they aim to implement for the project, the notion of agreeing to agree does not appear problematic.