Cons

A unique combination of inept staff management, dysfunctional teams, indecisive stakeholders, endless cost and assurance reviews and poor management systems all done badly leading to a proliferation of pointless jobs and delays. My key task seemed to involve little more than copying information from Word and Powerpoint documents into other Word and Powerpoint documents. The expensive systems used for project management and reporting rarely worked properly or the information was not ready. All the time yet more consultants are brought in to handle the endless assurance and cost reviews or trying to fix the systems and processes. Despite the non-value adding work most staff are working flat out and constantly unavailable. I had to wait over an hour on my first day since nobody was in the office at the arranged time. Throughout there was a miserable atmosphere and many ill-tempered meetings. On my last day the office was virtually empty (again) and there wasn't even a handover conducted.