Scope drift rarely arrives as a dramatic new epic. It arrives as a sequence of small yeses — each reasonable, none re-priced, until the date has moved and nobody owns the decision.
Our fix is boring on purpose. Discovery ends in a fixed-scope document. Changes go through a written protocol: what changes, what it costs, what moves. You approve before we start.
That sounds slower than verbal 'we'll squeeze it in'. It isn't. Verbal squeeze-ins are how budgets leak for months.
What you get every Friday
A URL you can click. Status is something you use, not a deck you're told. If the scope changed mid-week, the change record is already in the channel — not discovered at the steering meeting.
What we won't pretend
Agile without a change protocol is just unpaid overtime with better vocabulary. Hold vendors — including us — to written estimates after discovery. If they won't, that's the signal.