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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello All,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">(Disclaimer: - my comments below are my personal view, and don’t relate to the views of the Board or other Board members)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Just following up on my comments about the structure of review teams.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am in favour of making review teams more open – (ie option 2) which consists of a fixed number of members and an open number of participants. It avoids the situation where it is the usual suspects that are on every review team.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My concern though is that a review team basically comes up with a list of requirements for improvements. The larger and more inclusive the group – the larger the list of requirements. Unless a requirement conflicts with another requirement
it is likely to be added to the list.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I think we should explicitly note that review teams should be required to provide a prioritised set of requirements. This is always harder to do, but is the real work that needs to be done.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The organisation can then focus on implementing the high priority requirements within a short time frame to get the most benefit.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My comment comes from a long experience managing software projects where there are always more requirements than resources to implement those requirements in a reasonable time frame.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are doing new releases of critical parts of the organisation on a cyclical basis – and need to ensure we focus on the key requirements for each release.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In terms of whether this is a new idea – I am trying to create a balance between allowing review teams to be larger and more inclusive, and ensuring we don’t get an unrealistically long list of requirements that can’t be implemented in
a timely or cost effective fashion.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bruce Tonkin<o:p></o:p></p>
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