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

' I got really angry yesterday, because this [Eurobase] project manager described the specification ... he described it as a living document. I said "For God's sake, it's a dead document" and he was saying "We've got to be flexible allowing changes here". "No, no", I said, "we're totally inflexible". I really got quite annoyed, because any change that comes out of testing or work that's done on the project has got to come up to this steering group that oversees it, and the starting premise is it doesn't get through. That's where we start from, and only the very odd exception will get through, something that we got wrong at the design stage or we've missed: it's got to have a really, really impressive business justification to get through, and that's the way this will be run.

As a result of this, I went round all the managers at the table, because they were all there, the claims managers, and they all said they had a new thing. Everything that's come up since the specification has been signed six weeks ago, that's all out, back out again and I didn't know they'd actually been incorporating these things, so I've taken..it's all gone out again and I said it has to have my sign-off, and Lionel, who's the director, it has to be signed off by him, any change, because it's the only chance we've got of getting the thing in. ... '

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

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