Show me the incentive and I’ll show you the outcome. The business model of Systems Integrators is to bill by the hour. You should not be surprised, then, when your project takes three years or more and is never finished. An 8090 Software Factory project that finishes in three months is a threat to a business model built on never finishing. They will tell you AI isn't ready or that the traditional time and materials model is the only way. But what they stay quiet about is the real reason they push the timeline to “never ending”, which is that a short timeline breaks their business model vs reinforces it. Learn more here: