>7) Smiley Joe. Comes in, has numerous meetings, gives a reasonable bid. Does a good design specification, but never gets around to doing the work.
Another good one! How about:
8) The tree killers. Generally a team of consultants from one of the Big Consulting Firms doing work for a large comapny. Insists that you have to learn their methodology, then learn their process, then document your needs using the process and methodology and then document the document.
This has been a common one I've seen.
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John Koziol, ex-MVP, ex-MS, ex-FoxTeam. Just call me "X"
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