[plug] [ot] new consultants

[Bernd Felsche]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 11:00:59AM +0800, Tim Bowden wrote:
> Bernd Felsche wrote:
> 
> >>Firstly, thanks for all the feedback.  It has been most helpful.
> >>I have found out a little more about our needs- aparently our 'QA'
> >>consultant is going to be building a small in house web site for
> >>us as part of our document control system.  He uses frontpage.  He
> >>has recomended we use frontpage to insert our content (as far as I
> >>can tell at the moment it is just loading up word docs to make
> >>them available internally) Frontpage is probably  the only thing
> >>he knows about web design.

> >Crikey, yeah... if that's all you're doing. Even a CGI form can do
> >the trick.

> I think the root of the problem here is a consultant giving advice
> well out of his field of expertise.  This advice is not cheap- Not
> just his fees but the training expense he was going to inflict on
> us, time lost for those doing the training, time lost for those
> trying to cover their jobs while they are away at training...  It
> all adds up.  Those going on the training course are not
> interested in html or web aurthoring.  They are only going to go
> because they think they need it to get a small part of their job
> done.  Given it can be done in another way with much less expense
> this advice has to be considered poor at best.

And a poor investment. Training people to do something by hand that
can effectively be automated at lower cost than training even one
person.

I've lost count of the number of times I've seen that happen.

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