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Phase I (Sep 92 - Jun 93): Quality assurance review

' ... our QA person has done a post implementation review ... and he is a very pedantic individual, as these people tend to be, you know, very negative never sees the kind of good in anything, as far as I can see. Him and I, socially we get on fine, but work wise we don't see eye to eye on anything and he wrote this report having spoken to the team, the idea was to try and learn some lessons, there was sort of reasonable stuff in there but it was all very, very negative, I felt. Well ... it started with a negative comment, I think you should've started by saying that it went in virtually on time and it was under budget because that is quite important and the users generally like it. ... But he is very steeped in traditional development methods ...

He's got these recommendations ... which moreorless we've agreed most of them. His view is that, one of the things he mentioned, which I suppose we all recognize, is that we didn't say no enough as a general thing. The prototyping method is very good, very effective in terms of getting the system to meet requirements, but it can quickly get out of control.'

X022 page 017.02 (tape 02.1.07) Gordan Notes/Trans/Tape 27/01/94

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