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Hertz paid Accenture $32M for a website that never went live (2019)

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Re: Hertz paid Accenture $32M for a website that never went live (2019)

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> the way religious people believe in God? Except that there are concrete proofs of God.

Love to see such a magical document.

There are many ways of proving. The Quran is a huge proof. The fact that it detailed lost knowledge that was not available elsewhere at the time (one example[1], and there are more similar to it) is another proof. Also, check out provingislam.com.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AN5zHR1wi14

Re: Hertz paid Accenture $32M for a website that never went live (2019)

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You said it perfectly. When I read "Agile Model" I could already see it, Accenture signing a Time & Materials contract, giving no shit about the badly detailed scope on the clients side (after all this means more hours), and some bad PMing on both sides. I bet the responsive detail was not clearly stated on the scope, Accenture noticed it but let it pass since it is T&M... I'm an ex-Accenture (and also ex-IBM iX, tha…

Agile/Scrum is perfect for such consulting engagements - there is a measurable easily reportable progress every sprint while nothing real gets achieved in any reasonable time, and the customer seeing/accepting that incremental progress is de-facto almost waiving its right to demand the final result.

But usually the customer is the one prioritizing the backlog no? At least in all the project I've worked in the PO was always on the customer side.
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