The fixed price contract has been discussed here at the Crisp blog by others. It is broken by design as it creates more problem than it fixes.

On the way from JAOO I talked to Udi Dahan and that made it fall into place in a different fashion. Not that this is what he said, this is what he sparked.

The fixed price contract is not necessarily fixed price, a contract or evil.

When talking about Scrum to business people I very often get the question "How do I deal with fixed priced contracts when doing Scrum?"

It struck me today no one who ever asked me this, has come to the conclusion that doing fixed priced contracts could be wrong way to go altogether.

And that is a bit scary.