No wonder they go over budget

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NickIT replied

18 July 2006, 22:14
Originally posted by xoggoth

Little formal planning can work ok with small or one man projects given competent people. There must be a law somewhere, disaster proportional to number of people involved cubed to the power of 96.

LOL!!!! Spot on!
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xoggoth replied

18 July 2006, 21:33
Little formal planning can work ok with small or one man projects given competent people. There must be a law somewhere, disaster proportional to number of people involved cubed to the power of 96.
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Denny replied

18 July 2006, 20:21
Originally posted by AtW

Double your rate then and you can do on Fridays?

That's tax payers money you're talking about.
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mcquiggd replied

18 July 2006, 20:17
Well, guess it depends at what age....

She looks a right cheeky minx...
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darmstadt replied

18 July 2006, 20:15
Seeing as its mainframe, I only get twin Joan Collins lookalikes
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mcquiggd replied

18 July 2006, 20:14
Originally posted by darmstadt

all expenses (and I mean all)

You mean, including the twin Kelly Brook lookalikes, bathed and sent to your room...

Thought you could only get that with .Net...
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darmstadt replied

18 July 2006, 20:11
Originally posted by AtW

Double your rate then and you can do on Fridays?

Nah, Friday I have a 1600km drive home, all expenses though as everything has been since last week including the weekend I spent in Sowerby Bridge.

As it is I don't have a rate for this customer (not the end customer,) I get paid a monthly retainer, all expenses (and I mean all) and then various sums for system builds, support contracts, etc. Its a pretty good earner along with doing normal sysprog/consultancy contracts at the same time
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Toad replied

18 July 2006, 20:01
Tredss ?
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mcquiggd replied

18 July 2006, 19:53
My advice... open a nice bottle of chilled Chablis, work out how much you are invoicing for... and then have a bit of Light Relief...
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AtW replied

18 July 2006, 19:53
Double your rate then and you can do on Fridays?
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darmstadt started a topic No wonder they go over budget

18 July 2006, 19:51
No wonder they go over budget

Well I've been spending the last couple of weeks working on a system for a contract being provided by large consultancy to a government agency and I have never seen such wastage, amateurish, pah, words fail me, on a project. Each day the goalposts move, no-one has actually worked out a full project plan. None of the teams seemed to have actually sat down together and said what they wanted. Glad I go back to doing the normal stuff on friday, except they need me to come back due to all the screw-ups!
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