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What affected the schedules?: Prototyping & project management

Although they were inexperienced at managing prototyping the project planning did take that and their inexperience with the tools into account (00420). Progress monitoring at various levels was in place (00422) but they did not use it to establish a cut-off point to changes (00434) and let the project run on for too long (00270, 01101).

The original deadline was a bit vague (00267) but there was a lot of political pressure to deliver something before the end of May because David was leaving the department (00705, 00822). To achieve this they worked long hours (00325) and delivered the system in two parts at the end of May and June, claiming that it was delivered on time (00469). However, Gordan still felt with hindsight that it was better to go live even though they knew that technically phase I could be improved (01043).

Social influence:
Technical influence:
Process: Project management

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