The analysis for the Financial Accounting sub-system seemed to be being completed for a year (00346, 00967). In part this was because the emphasis of the sub-system changed from being an accounting system suitable for European countries (00284) to a potential replacement for the mainframe use in the UK (00540, 00968, 00858). They also seriously under-estimated the complexity of the sub-system (01047, 00540, 00775). They used a throwaway type prototyping where they produced screens without any associated processing and perhaps this encouraged them to neglect the data (00738). When Colin took over he made it clear that the specification was frozen and could not be as easily changed as the prototype was in phase I (00968).
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