technical experts

[d000hg]

These people worry me. I took one to a meeting a couple of days ago and having spoken to him prior to the meeting I realised there was going to be a problem. These people love to trash what has been done previously and openly criticise poor decisions in the past.
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In the end they both agreed that the best solution was to start again - something she had assumed anyway.

I don't think I've ever seen:

1. A developer look at a pre-existing application
2. A web-designer look at an existing website

With at the very least claiming there are problems, and often that starting over is the best/cheapest solution. It doesn't matter if you've just paid a decent web-design company to create a whole new brand and web-site, another web-design company will invariably find a list of things they've done wrong.

[Sysman]

If they want some shiny suited yes man, send one of your pimp mates along.

What happens with shiny suits and crisp haircuts:

The Expert (Short Comedy Sketch)

[Dactylion]

You need Suity.

I can honestly say that I have never in all my years encountered a problem, no matter how simple, where it has ever occurred to me that the quote above is a correct answer.

[DodgyAgent]

I can honestly say that I have never in all my years encountered a problem, no matter how simple, where it has ever occurred to me that the quote above is a correct answer.

That's a worry because I have just placed him to do the job . Mind you he is cheap

[tractor]

Possibly your fault. I noticed the royal 'we' which means that you already knew about this and should have discussed this previously with your techincal expert...

I thought he meant he was going to roll his sleeves up and help