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Scope drift: why the agreed scope and the invoiced scope diverge

Scope drift is rarely dishonesty or incompetence. It is structural: the agreed scope lives in a chat or a PDF, the delivered work lives in a task list, and the invoice lives in the billing system — so there is nothing to compare. What a structured quote must contain, why the honest fix is a new quote rather than an edit to the original, and where quoted against billed still misleads you.

Updated 4 Oct 20269 min readBy Namik Batra

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Why project profit is wrong when scope and billing live in different systems

The margin figure is a subtraction, and the subtraction is the easy part. When the quote, the timesheets, and the invoices live in three different systems, the number is a reconciliation of three unrelated datasets — and it converges on a plausible answer whether or not the work was any good.

Updated 4 Oct 202611 min readBy Namik Batra

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