' ... There's myself who is Project Manager, my role is actually wider than project manager of the Multinational system. ... Essentially I was brought in to implement X's IT strategy, ... So there's me and underneath me I have two people, a guy called Stuart, Stuart is Business Analyst in IT and then I had until yesterday Scott. Scott was very much my number two. And of course he's done extremely well in this project and as a result he's just got a job over in XCanada.X013 page 015.05 (tape 03.1.01c) Gordan Notes/Trans/Tape 30/09/93And he left yesterday and it creates a huge problem for me ... because he has dealt with all the technical side of the project he is kind of the main technical team leader if you like so he's responsible for making sure the networks going properly, ... So to lose him is a bit like losing my right arm and I was supposed to get somebody to replace him but it hasn't happened because that person is working in another department which is having big problems at the moment, so I am now on my own as it were without somebody of Scott's calibre for the next three months. ...
So that really you've got Stuart looking after all the business aspects of the project and that includes the prototyping work, the design work, culminating in system testing, training all of the kind of things you would expect of a business analyst, he also looked after the data conversion, was involved in data quality issues ...
... underneath Stuart and Scott we've got a number of people, at any one time they could be working for either Stuart or Scott. They are basically analyst programmer type people who get involved on the business side and get involved on the technical side. Some do obviously have more emphasis on one or the other. And basically there is Jim, Matt, Nigel, Ned and we had a contractor working on the project as well ... '
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