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      <title>Fixed-Price Contracts and Agile Development Are Structurally Incompatible</title>
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      <description>The fixed-price contract is built on a specific assumption: that the scope of the work can be defined in advance with enough precision to price it accurately. The agile development model is built on a specific observation: that software requirements are not fully knowable in advance, and that attempting to define them completely before development begins produces worse outcomes than defining them incrementally in response to what is learned during development.</description>
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