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To: Edwarda who wrote (69770)	1/1/2000 2:44:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Everybody is in a mess before calling on me - LOL! Well, actually, I am beginning to see a pattern emerging now that there are a number of companies trying to do storefronts and set up shop as a dot com. The VCs seem to be pushing the founders into outsourcing their entire technical team to some of these consultants that do that, like Scient for example. If you are a simple implementation with no business issues that works but if its somehow complex from the business side you blow up. The problem is, unlike other complex software implementations where consultants didn't deliver in the past (the dreaded Sap implementations, etc) - these dotcoms don't have the in-house staff to even know whether the consultants are going to deliver anything at all... they just go along willy-nilly and then turn the thing on at go live and it falls apart. So my company is at least adding an infrastructure to police the consultants.... thats a step. I was somewhere where scient did somebody's back office and they set it up so the orders were all tracked at the order header level... (order number) for revenue recognition etc. That is so basic its embarrassing... orders are managed at the line level to account for split shipments and line cancellations... who wants to cancel and entire order if you change your mind about one item... give me a break, but the sad part is the startup company involved had a bunch of marketing people "managing" this technical deliverable and they weren't able to see these huge flaws.