HW23: Chapter 22

Ex 22.6
Fixed-price contracts, where the contractor bids a fixed price to complete a system development, may be used to move project risk from client to contractor. If anything goes wrong, the contractor has to pay. Suggest how the use of such contracts may increase the likelihood that product risks will arise.

 Fixed-price contracts are not a good idea if you want high quality code from this contract. Fixed budget put a bunch of pressure on the contractor to get the job done. If the contractor runs in to any kind of problem such as developing code, losing a team member, illness, or family emergency, this is going to greatly affect the code. Since no extra money will be made to spend more time on the product problems my be fixed poorly or parts of the code is rushed and not high quality.

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