[skydhash]

Unless the team are seriously bad developers, many times, it’s the manager fault. As a hired consultant, you often benefit many freedom that team is lacking. As someone that has been hired as a consultant, one of those are meetings and not having to worry about office politics.

[matwood]

I love how everyone is blaming management and if they only listened to the programmer(s) everything would be fixed.

I’ve been on all sides of this coin, and there is plenty of blame, misunderstanding, and bad ideas to go around.