The team has struggled over this phased implementation approach. Different constituencies have their own needs and agendas--for example, minimizing the need to work on two systems at the same time, putting a solution in quickly, getting a fair amount of additional functionality (over and above current) in the first phase. To complicate matters, certain technology architecture attributes make some solutions easier to implement than others. After a couple of months of debate, we reached a consensus on at least the functionality goals of the phasing approach. There are still technical issues to resolve.