>>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.
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>Another good one! How about:
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>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.
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>This has been a common one I've seen.

That reminds me of some Oracle guys at my current contract! They've just quoted eight days to create a view!!!