The lies of IT
Now to the 10 most frequent lies told by IT consultants. When you hear these lines spoken you have two alternatives: 1) fire the consultant on the spot, and; 2) bring your smartest and most crotchety nerds into the room and make the consultant explain his or her statement to their satisfaction then back it up with some performance guarantee and penalty clause.
1) "This can only be accomplished through a large custom development project."
2) "Of course your data is safe."
3) "We'll need a day or two for optimization and debugging."
4) "Yes, we've done this before. There are several companies using this product (or technology). They really like it."
5) "Server consolidation and virtualization will save you money."
6) "Storage consolidation and virtualization will save you money."
7) "The upgrade (or change) will be seamless and will not affect production."
8) "The upgrade (or change) will be transparent to users."
9) "Yes, we tested this thoroughly before installing it."
10) "If you install Tivoli it will solve all your support problems."
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080418_004737.html
Do you lie to your clients? Do you tell the truth that change isn't always easy? Do you recommend things that you haven't used before? Do you only recommend things that you know work?
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