potential conflicts were resolved when the proposed
development plan was distributed for feedback.
The chief architect was responsible for decision making and resolving technical conflicts for the application package. Analogous to the overall project manager, the chief architect was the overall technical manager. In practice, both the technical manager and the project manager reviewed key technical decisions.
An engineer was assigned responsibility to each subsystem. This engineer was responsible for the detailed design and implementation of this subsystem.
Project status tracking was done during weekly teleconferences. Each team member was encouraged to report on his development progress and to raise information or issues to be shared with other team members.