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Multinational phase III: Development approaches

'{But my impression was that eventually it turned out to be what I would call a throwaway kind of prototyping} Virtually yes. {But that wasn't the intention was it?} No, the original intention was an evolutionary prototyping, that was the original intention. But it didn't work out that way. {But if you were going to do a new system, would you do it throwaway? I was just saying to Colin, finance is effectively throwaway} It is yes. It depends on..we're at a different stage now you see because we know how to use and apply the technology. We're a lot better with it now than we were then. It would depend on the scale of the project. If it was a small, pretty self-contained application, then I'd still be tempted to do evolutionary prototyping but if it was anything the size of the Multinational system I wouldn't. ...

The nature of the prototype is changing as you're going along, it's evolving all the time, so how can you end up at the end of that process with an effective design? It's probably luck more than anything else, isn't it? ... It's challenging. But certainly if it's small, if it's anything small like a six month type project, then I'd have no problem with evolutionary ... Bear this in mind when I make comments like this. ... We've become really that way..we've got our fingers burnt once and we've just about managed to survive, we're not taking a second chance. ... .'

X069 page 001.02 (tape 06.2.02) Gordan Notes/Tape 14/10/94

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