Originally Posted by Unregistered

After having gone through the excruciating process with this guy a few times, I think the ping pong is due to 4 things.
1. He doesn't understand
2. He doesn't know what he wants... proven when we delivered an outline to him that was 90% what he said during whiteboarding and in the order he said it, and he still amended majority of the outline changing structure and content
3. He is not able to communicate effectively what he wants, and people start guessing all over the place
4. By the time you're getting closer to what he wants, there are developments and the outline needs to be updated, leading you back to square 1 with him

Some people call it iterating. Iterating my ass. It's a ******** excuse for not thinking through properly the first time, and wasting everyone's time going up and down and up and down on the same material.