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Post implementation review: Report's findings

'Obviously the control side of the project was the key thing as far as I was concerned. With the first phase of the system I was working full time on the project, managing it full time. David was full-time on the project as the business manager and we had Scott, who was the kind of senior technical man, or whatever you want to call him, controlling all the technical side of the work, and then we had Stuart, who was running the business analysis side of it, so we had a quite strong team, I felt.

And really that fell apart in phase 2, which I think, with hindsight, was a big mistake. David moved on to a new job, Scott went off ... to a new job in Canada, Stuart was kind of involved, but involved in other things as well, and then we got stretched, because Marine came in, and I started getting very heavily involved in Marine, and then Kevin joined and I had to spend much of my time with Kevin, and we just lost it completely from a management point of view.

It was frustrating, because the original idea was that a guy called Manny, who now manages the Marine project, ... he was going to take the leading role on the project. It was constantly put back until it got to January time, when he finally became available, and only then on a part-time basis. At that stage it was a choice of whether we put him on to Multinational or Marine, and I put him on to Marine. I now think that was a mistake.

... I think that probably, having a full-time project manager, that decision would have been different about the testing. It would have been confronted and the implementation would have been put back, because there would have been somebody closer ... '

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