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To: John Mansfield who wrote (938)	1/21/1998 12:19:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

I like this one! 'œ16,606.25 Estimated saving œ 4.0 M' iee.org.uk 'APPENDIX J The following item is given as a cautionary tale Planning Liaison Unit for Navel Development and General Engineering Transcript of Defect Analysis Meeting held on: 05/01/2000 TWA: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you all for coming to this emergency meeting of the Defect Analysis Team of the Planning Liaison Unit.<snip> I'm particularly grateful to those of you who have had to sacrifice their vacation to attend this meeting, but as you are aware, we have had a number of extremely serious incidents over the holiday period, and it is essential that we track down the root cause as soon as possible to ensure that similar problems never arise again. <snip> TS-T: Thank you. Because the application was written in 176 it was extremely difficult to track down the ownership of the offending code. Records eventually revealed that a Mr. Schiester was the original project manager. Mr. Schiester unfortunately no longer works for the organisation. In fact he had been made redundant in 1986. We were however able to trace him through the telephone directory, but when we contacted him he was very abusive. He told us, in no uncertain manner that he neither knew, nor cared where the development documentation was, but that it had added to the joy of his holiday to know that something he might had gone had caused us some distress. He did however reveal, just before he slammed the phone down, that the security guard, a Mr. Tom Cooper, might know something. <snip> Chairs Note: The action was agreed unanimously. Meeting ended 17:35. Metrics: Length of meeting 4 hrs 15 minutes. Attendees 9 Total hours in meeting 38 hrs 15 minutes Total preparation time 96 hours Total hours 134.25 hours Total cost of meting @ œ105 ph œ14,096.25 Additional Expenses œ 2,510.00 Total cost of DA œ16,606.25 Estimated saving œ 4.0 M