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After phase II (Aug 94 - Feb 95): Marine system

'Overall I'm quite pleased with the new project. I mean, there's been a big project in GIS to replace an investment system. It's now about 18 months late. God knows how much over budget, it's just a complete disaster, it is an item at the group board every meeting. The people on it, they didn't have a specification to start with, an agreed specification, and they had this kind of scope creep thing, where the thing has just gone up and up and up in terms of the scope, bears no resemblance to what they they were originally tackling, and I think it's just a public relations disaster. Well, the only way we'll avoid the same thing on Marine, which is a big project, is by really aggressively tackling these issues on conversion and on managing Eurobase. ... '

X060 page 004.05e (tape 03.2.03e) Gordan Notes/Tape 14/10/94

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