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What affected the choice of system boundary?: IT Strategy and Requirements studies

Almost immediately following approval of the IT strategy a team spent three months scoping and defining the requirements for the Multinational system (00368, 00228). This team did not include Colin, the author of the strategy, and does not appear to have been constrained by the recommendations in the strategy. The starting point was an 'information system for X' (00228). Requirements were derived from interviews with staff in the UK, Holland and USA followed by three brainstorming sessions (00235). The resulting requirements were larger than recommended in the strategy (00234, 00244) and involved replacing the Q&A system (00230). This does not appear to have been made explicit and not all features of the Q&A system were included in the requirements for the new system (00364).

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Technical influence:
Tasks: Requirements definition

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