Yes, Governor, as one who was in the trenches, they arrived from the diploma mills, with a piece of paper in their hand with “Oracle” stamped on it. Corporate cost thinking decides that if one highly paid systems person can have the project baby in 9 months, then 9 of the low cost people can make the project baby in one month. This is why IT has gone from a few experts within the business function to full blown cross-functional corporate bureaucracies - IT is now an end unto itself, instead of a means to improving the business function.
They’ll promise one month, then when the deadline is a week awaytheyre not quite ready and need another two months, then they’ll give you a crap code that doesn’t meet requirements and say it’s your fault for not being clear in the business requirements and they need another 3 months to rewrite it when those 3 months are up they’ll give you a product that fails beta testing, but parts of it might barely work, they then need another 3 months to ensure the business requirements are understandable etc. worked on a 50 million dolllar project while with a Canadian bank that was promised in 6 months. 3 1/2 years later and 150 million the Indian firm finally had a workable system. The guys who saved 20 million and a year on the original project got a big bonus and promotion