The force of habit

The habits obtained are a big thing, frequently underestimated. Most of us have professionally grown up within tough conditions of fixed price projects. In some less mature markets, as Ukrainian for example, time & material business models are still viewed as kind of exotic luxury somewhere overseas.

In those circumstances, principle of scope protection became something more important than Ten Commandments for a Christians. The habit to push back requirements and to surround any action committed by the hence of assumptions infiltrates into ordinary life - when you arrange a meeting with friends or negotiate conditions of going to get same food into kiosk around the corner with the wife.

With this background I frequently observe an amusing situation. In time & materials project and situations vendors are supposed to compete for scope they instead, driven by the habit, try to anyway reject requirements and hand it over to other parties in any price.

Be careful Old School is in action!)