Getting Drunk in First Class

Yep, the words straight out of a consultant’s mouth. You may not have heard this one before but frankly, it is an eye-opener. What it means is going around to the client executives and client engagement sponsors and touting how much ‘value’ they are getting from all the work that the consulting firm has done [...]

It’s a Wednesday morning at 8 AM. I’m up and I quickly throw on my suit and get to the client’s offices downtown, red eyes and all. I check on my team, sit in on the status meeting, throw a few crumb cakes around for being late, generally cause a ruckus for the entire team [...]

We got tired of typing in gettingdrunkinfirstclass.com to read our own consulting bullshit; so we registered gdifc.com to save our little fingers from hours of typing. You can now user either URL but gdifc.com will now redirect to gettingdrunkinfirstclass.com.
Enjoy!

Joel Spolsky reclaims his accounts with a management consultant from a high-end consultancy.
A management consultant [...] wrote me a nice email, that included the following sentence:
Our team is conducting a benchmarking effort to gather an outside-in view on development performance metrics and best practice approaches to issues of process and organization from companies involved in [...]