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Its kind of sad to see what has become of IBM. It is now just another consulting shop that wants to plant a slew of 3-400/hr consultants to run projects. The bi
by S_A_P 9y ago
Its kind of sad to see what has become of IBM. It is now just another consulting shop that wants to plant a slew of 3-400/hr consultants to run projects. The big consulting companies best trick was to convince those in the enterprise that hiring a boutique consulting shop is "risky" and that a big 4/5 consulting company is a "safe" option even though it is orders of magnitude more expensive and not necessarily better, and in some cases worse when it comes to specialized systems.
Source: years of working in Energy/Commodity trading systems market and seeing several botched big 4 implementations that vendor/boutique shops can do at 1/10th the price.
- zwerdlds 9y agoHaving done big and small consulting work, I think part of the issue is that waterfall still has quite a large buy-in. Smaller shops tend to go more agile, but when you have a team of analysts chomping at the bit to document your processes and say "yes, we can do this" (regardless of if they actually can) that builds confidence. And that confidence is what moves the project forward, until the customer sees dates slipping, at which point it's too late.