Agile Methodology

The Fixed-Price Contract and Agility

A fixed-price contract is a type of contract where the payment amount does not depend on resources used or time expended.

Government buyers often use Fixed-price contracts to control the cost of a project and put the risk on the seller’s side. From a buyer’s perspective, there are some advantages and disadvantages to this. Here are just some of them.

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Transparency; The First Casualty of a Scrum Transition

The three pillars of empricism are: Transparency, Inspection and Adaptation. Without transparency, your inspection is rendered worthless and any adaptations based on that inspection are flawed. This is basic and obvious. Everyone can understand it. Yet many scrum adoptions suffer because of it.

Why do we make such an obvious and fundamental mistake? Here’s one perspective, and one solution.