In your working experience...

[delanvital]

I think the most common occurence of this happening is when you use freelancers. Many of the projects we work on will require extra or specialist resource so we get freelancers in with the required knowledge.
 
Once the project is finished and the freelancers have been kicked to the kurb we'll then realise phases 2 and 3 of the project revolve around the work they've done.
 
Panic.
 
Fortunately, if not totally over resourced we'll have the skills in the team, but what happens then is you might be as good as the freelancer, but realise they've written everything in such a poor way you'd prefere to be stabbed repeatedly in the eyes than look at there code.
 
This happens all the time where i work.

I cannot help but ask... has there been any discussion on how to avoid this? If so, how? :g:

[A Twig]

Don't use consultants/freelancers!?

[Jamoe]

An interesting discussion has appeared on slashdot, might contain some useful information for you.

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/225823460/article.pl

[DuVeL]

I've been working for a company where I would be detached to companies which would hire me per project. Good money but sometimes adjusting peoples stuff would be to much and just starting from scratch would have been better.
Bad thing is, if the project ends, they sometimes don't even know on the how and what off a building, sure there's someone above directing everything but in one case that guy left aswell.
They ended up in hiring me again for the same project to work in someone from their company...

[delanvital]

James and Duvel, many thanks for your contribution as well This is really cool stuff for me. Adds a lot of perspective on what it is I am doing in my case-study. Go dMw:dmw: