First the Bad News

One fine day, you are summoned to your division leader's office. He informs you that big events are about to occur in the data processing division of the company. To accommodate increasing international growth and to promote efficiency, all the software in the entire company is to be unified, standardized, and streamlined into a single distributed system. The development teams will remain at the individual offices, but beginning at once they are all to report to a newly appointed division leader, under whose direction they are to work together to achieve the stated goals. Existing software at the individual branch offices is to be replaced piece by piece by the newly developed replacement packages. Isolated systems in various parts of the company (such as personnel management and accounting) are to be integrated into the new system. Thus you, a specialist in accounting and supply systems, are affected by the new developments.