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'Now what we looked at very hard was restricting the requirement as far as we could to try and hold the date to November basically and then Neville said we had to return and re-examine requirements again to see if we could strip more out. We couldn't. ... insurance is really very simple but when you have this international element to it, involve lots of re-insurance it makes it all very smelly. So what we're constructing is very precise clockwork. It is not something to be done by producing kind of a first draft on screen, it's not a prototyping project, it's a 'you agree this requirement at the start maties' project. And we are, as I say, constructing very precise clockwork to link the underwriting system to the accounting ledger. And what we stripped out was essentially the clockface. They get no screens, they have reports. If they want to read the time, the read the time on a report. Now we'll add the screens afterwards if they still want them ... '
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