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Alice is a software project manager working in a company that develops alarm systems.
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This company wishes to enter the growing market of assistive technology to help elderly and disabled people live independently.
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Alice has been asked to lead a team of sick developers that can develop new products based around the company's alarm technology.
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Alice's assistive technology project starts well.
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Good working relationships develop within a team and creative new ideas are developed.
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The team decides to develop a peer -to -peer messaging system using technology.
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Some months into the project, alice noticed that dorothy, a hardware design expert, starts coming into work late.
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The quality of her work deteriorates increasingly, and she does not appear to be communicating with other members of the team.
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So she talks to dorothy to find out what is going on.
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Dorothy admits she has lost interest in the job.
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She wanted to develop her skills, but because of the product direction that has been chosen, she has little opportunity to do so.
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She is also worried that finding a job that involves hardware interfacing will be difficult after this project...