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Re:After Pentagon Ends Contract, Top-Secret Scientists Group... by achenatx on Friday April 26, 2019 @08:42AM (#19756821)
I own a contracting company and we regularly tell clients they should cut the project we are working on because it doesnt provide enough value.

We do software requirements, identifying the minimum necessary features to maximize the value. Some projects have no redeeming value.

Who wants to waste a clients money working on something that has no value for a client?

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Re:After Pentagon Ends Contract, Top-Secret Scientists Group... by nn3 on Friday April 26, 2019 @10:23AM (#19757805)
>Who wants to waste a clients money working on something that >has no value for a client?

Isn't that the whole business model of Accenture and similar?

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Re:After Pentagon Ends Contract, Top-Secret Scientists Group... by JetSpiegel on Saturday April 27, 2019 @06:14AM (#19764811)
That's doing the least possible while billing the most. It's an optimizing function.

Doing valueless projects is a consequence of that function.

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