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A lot of folks in companies hire consultants for confirmation bias. They need someone to agree to what they want to to do. Furthermore it's harder to get in t
by segmondy 4y ago
A lot of folks in companies hire consultants for confirmation bias. They need someone to agree to what they want to to do. Furthermore it's harder to get in trouble when you can claim that you followed what a professional consultant suggested.
- zo1 4y agoConsultants want and need the business. Telling the client their software/processes/org is a steaming pile of garbage will quickly get you fired and replaced. Been there, had that happen. They also always see consultants as master-level uber expert geniuses that can swoop in and fix anything whilst doing it under their direction and code/management flavor, so you can't win.
- mousetree 4y agoI’ve actually had the opposite experience. I had clients that suspected their software/processes/org were a steaming pile of garbage - ie the business folk saw long cycle times, high amount of bugs and wanted to bring in a consultant to get a second opinion (yes, in most cases confirm). It was a tough job to do fairly because as an engineer our natural inclination is to miss the context and only see the bad.