10 Most Frequent Lies Told By IT Consultants

April 22, 2008 – 7:37 am
  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.”

To understand why some IT consultants are great but most are not, read Robert X. Cringely’s article The Truth About IT Consultants”

[via Gregg Eldred]

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