Yes, it feels like a certain project that was foisted upon me.
Fixed price SOW with a vendor to build a thing my firm didn't have domain knowledge in.
Paid them to design a thing, then paid them to implement the design, as well as project manage themselves. SOW lacked meaningful acceptance criteria / objective tests.
Of course, it was non-stop debacle of new things being discovered during implementation. Weekly status calls just turned into recrimination sessions with fingers pointed in all directions as to who is responsible for the time/cost.
Paid them to design a thing, then paid them to implement the design, as well as project manage themselves. SOW lacked meaningful acceptance criteria / objective tests.
Of course, it was non-stop debacle of new things being discovered during implementation. Weekly status calls just turned into recrimination sessions with fingers pointed in all directions as to who is responsible for the time/cost.
You can't rent knowledge.