Baking analogy at work today. To recap, currently I'm on a project to help my customer coordinate the baking of their slice of cake in a regional bake & bond session. The bakery is located outside Singapore so no one here can tell how much time the bakers are spending on our slice of the cake. The problem is no one informed us that the bakers are also charging us for work done on the cake in general, and not just on our slice. This makes sense technically, but we didn't budget to pay for ingredients that don't go into our slice. So what we have on hand is a potential budget overrun even before the cake gets baked.

The bakers can't charge less, the customer can't pay more, and the cake must rise above this. Fun fun fun.