Oh No, the Software Consultants Are Coming!
Summary
The full title of Mariana Mazzucato’s recent popular book “The Big Con” is “How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilises our Governments and Warps our Economies”. A bunch of new people coming onto poorly ventilated premises can still make you wince, but in any case the staff themselves may not be at the office much anymore. On the other hand, the number of people working as consultants seems to have increased, perhaps driven by long periods of quiet reflection. The invading force of well-paid suits is probably still a thing in the IT world, but there are likely to be plenty of people who come in just to manage one area — like Agile, QA, etc. This leads to the need for the consultant to deliver a quick interim report to separate symptoms from underlying problems, and why a change of approach might be necessary.