Let’s do a little math here to see how everyone won. In the first three months of the contract the customer paid out $1.5 million to the Scrum firm. Terminating the contract early required them to pay 20 percent of the remaining $8.5 million—that’s $1.7 million. They paid out $3.2 million for a piece of software they thought would cost $10 million, and they got it seventeen months early.
