and the existence of predefined budgets that "compel" you to

spend whatever is available.

The continuous delivery of functional increments

generates more changes

One of the reasons why some people argue that Scrum does

not work with fixed-budget contracts is the large amount of

change requests that it generates. Allowing the scope to

change is not the same as letting it grow.

It is important to understand that the initial specification is

nothing more than a set of hypotheses about how to

provide value to users. The increments serve to validate these

hypotheses and usually, the feedback tends to be very

different from what’s expected; at this point, the greatest

contradiction and the greatest opportunity for change

becomes evident. We as providers of the solution are probably

tied to the predefined initial scope, but the user responds

according to their needs and the client, according to the needs

of their business.

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