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Back when I was working with some consultants a few years ago that were trying to sell us some software, we used to have a running joke that if you bumped into one of them and asked them their name, they would reply: "Yes, we can do that."

All of us analysts knew the consultants were overpromising and would under-deliver, but management ate it up. Guess what happened? We were right.

Oh, and I ended up re-writing a lot of the code a year or so later. When the consultants delivered the product, it was taking 45 minutes to process one transaction. I got that down to half a second. I'm not kidding.