Findings

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In the commentary, each event was categorised by the key influence and classified according to whether the influence was critical, important or merely potentially important. The table summarises the impact of each key influence as described in the commentary. The diagram summarises the findings from the whole research. Both link to fuller descriptions of each key influence.

Key     Critical     Important     Potentially important
Software conception or inception?
Why build a system for Multinational?                  
What affected the choice of system boundary?                  
What affected the choice of systems architecture?          
What affected the choice of process model?                
 
Software construction or evolution?
What affected the functionality that was delivered?            
What affected the internal design?                
What affected the reliability of the system?          
What affected the schedules?        
What affected the composition of the development group?                
 
Software delivery or use?
What affected the use of the system?          
Why was the quality of the data poor?                


Key influences

The following diagram summarises the findings from the whole research, not just the analysis of X. The influences in the diagram link to descriptions of the effect of the influence in X.


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