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What affected the choice of process model?: Appointment of project managers

One of the consequences of the problems of phase II was that the development strategy became much more structured and traditional. It had always been recognised that the Financial Accounting sub-system would require a more traditional approach with a specification because of the nature of the problem (00996) but when Colin took over he established a much more conventional approach (00857). In particular he had the users sign up to the specification (00965) although he was proposing to run through screens and reports with them during development (00959). He also set standards for the programmers' work including module specs, test plans and so on (00959, 00864) although he admitted that it would not all stick (01103). By this stage the Financial Accounting sub-system had been running over deadlines but the upshot of Colin's planning was a Financial Accounting sub-system that was reduced in functionality but would take a further year to develop (00855).

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