Right Hand... Meet Left Hand

Today at work I overheard 2 conversations which were going on simultaneously..

one on the right side of my desk on how we need to cut budget on our project. What does the consultants statement of work say? What will happen if we need to scale them back?

on the left side of my desk: ok, we need to add the xml conversion to what the consultants are doing because we don’t have the bandwidth. (note: the consultants are involved in this discussion). How much does that increase your scope of work and cost?

hmmm……