I'm grateful to have actually met the luminary himself in the flesh after hearing him speak at the Thoughtworks Live event the day before. I finally got an answer to my on-going questions on pricing/structuring contracts for agile projects! It would have been great if he had been able to hang around longer as I noticed a couple of shy folk who who seemed keen to ask/say something but ran out of time. Still, he's a man in hot demand and his email address isn't that hard to find. All credit to the Melbourne Agile and Scrum User Group organisers and tip-o'-the-hat to Thoughtworks' chaperone (James?) for making it possible.