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Jane, contractor appointed to manage Multinational Project in GIS

Jane, from Touche Ross, had a phd and was contracted by X to manager the Multinational development. She had worked for British Gas on client-server conversions and came from a methods background (01081). She was regarded as good technically with a strong relational database background (01085) and was a match for the senior Sybase consultants (00894)..

Initially Gordan thought she was highly intelligent with good style (01081) and although she came across as quiet, she had an inner strength (01082) which seemed to allow her to handle Tim (00954). By January 1995 he was describing her as an opinionated, very disciplined, self-willed individual and said that they argued a lot (00872). He felt she was frequently critical without being constructive (00883). He also said that she communicated better upwards than downwards (01104).

She started in October 1994 (00872) and cost them 10% of their annual budget (00878). One of the first things she did was to instigate a programme to establish standards using a CASE tool (00874) thus changing the development style (01104).


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