[whstl]

Well, here's the thing... you're not wrong. You're actually 100%... scratch that, 120% correct!

Software shouldn't really be a constant struggle. It shouldn't be about constantly forcing square objects into tiny round roles.

However, when you're an experienced developer that's easy to see. Sometimes even when you're inexperienced it's also easy... But when you're upper management, and a developer says "we shouldn't do that in Sharepoint" while Microsoft is telling them "this is 100% possible in Sharepoint" and the Microsoft approved consultancy says "this is extremely easy in Sharepoint", the developer ends up looking bad! :(

[arethuza]

One approach to dealing with that is to then suggest that if things are so easy then surely the consultancy would be willing to do the project on a fixed price basis?

[whstl]

Yeah, that would do the trick. But then again, in companies with thousands of employees this kinda things tends to get lost in translation between the multiple management layers, or when some over eager product manager decides to make their life goal adding some weird customization to SharePoint at any cost possible :/