What would you do if you were the manager

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1. You are working on an office automation project in the printing industry. The system to be developedis meant to support the work of journal editors. The management objective for this project is to savelabour costs; the editors' objective is to improve the quality of their work.In the development of this project you may opt for two strategies. The first strategy is to start athorough analysis of the user requirements, after which the system is built according to theserequirements. The second strategy starts with less complete requirement analysis phase, after whicha pilot version is developed. This pilot version is installed in a few departments. Further developmentof the system is guided by the gained experience in working with the pilot version.

2. Discuss possible ramifications of these opposing objectives on the project. What would you do if you were the manager?

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