> No. The engagement will be governed by a contract, and those contracts will often require they staff a certain number of people for the engagement - especiall

> No. The engagement will be governed by a contract, and those contracts will often require they staff a certain number of people for the engagement - especially if it's a "butts in seats" kind of engagement, which this looks like it is. Yes. Multiple years in big 4 consulting much spent writing statements of work - Accenture is not powerless and can definitely make the call here for a few weeks. Takes an engagement director with backbone and managing partner + maybe executive buy in but it's definitely very doable for a many billon dollar company. > Whomever is managing the engagement from Accenture is shitting the bed and communicating poorly, for sure, though. Agreed.