&gt; Just because one team of developers could do something in 200 man hours doesn&#x27;t mean you can&#x27;t spend and bill 2000 for it.<p>It doesn&#x27;t mean you <i>should</i> pay, or plan, to spend 20,000 man hours in meetings and devote huge chunks of your budget to expensive licenses for something that could take 200 man hours, especially when it&#x27;s taxpayers money.<p>Sure there are unavoidable overheads but why does our government keep splashing <i></i>billions<i></i> on them and failing, with little accountability?<p>Training is going to be expensive, sure, but perhaps plow millions of pounds into that after the program is finished. Maybe don&#x27;t use the same massive, costly consultancies that fail to deliver? The Obamacare website was a great example of this IMO. Costly consultancy failed to deliver, small agile teams brought in to save the day - if only a bit too late.