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Phase I (Sep 92 - Jun 93): Team

' ... you can't ??? have a team in which everyone is first-rate ??? some mixed ability some extremely capable . ... some issues just seemed to go round and round in circles ??? the mix of people maybe wasn't ideal ... the two people who's contribution was less than we would have liked for the reason: great ideas man, wonderful ideas, just couldn't actually harness them to making something that would work. ??? Jim ??? much more interested in using the technology to produce a result than actually analysing what the problem was and what the result required should be and the other guy, Ned, who didn't really live up to expectations, and I think basically his problem was a failure to really appreciate what it was the business guys were looking for.

... Well you're looking for hybrid people, if I was to ... pure business people, they've got no appreciation ??? IT issues and those guys have to be ??? We expect them to understand our way of doing things, what we're trying to achieve as though ??? twenty years or more and I think that's what differentiates the ??? everyone else on the team could appreciate what we were trying to achieve and why we were trying to achieve it ... '

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