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fixed cost projects either don’t change, or more likely have a very specific change procedure written in to them, so the customer knows changes aren’t free.

(of course changes are never free, but we all seem to want to brush that away, to the detriment of the customer.)

there are a lot of software projects out there where the customer isn’t chasing some shiny new toy. the folks who wrote the firmware for your microwave had a really good idea what the entire feature set was going to be before they started.