Whilst being one of the largest and must successful yacht building companies in the country, Pendennis felt that they needed to improve their time tracking and planning systems and make them easier to use, thereby meaning that supervisors would better record and plan for use of workers.
Pendennis already had all of the software tools and systems needed for recording time in place, however they felt that they needed a custom front end on those tools to both make everything easier to use and to provide extra functionality where they felt it was missing. Initially there were several meetings with the Pendennis IT manager to understand both how they work, and what they were trying to achieve and the technologies they were using.
In this particular case, there was a preference by the client (largely for security reasons) to use their onsite Windows servers and have the software developed using C# and .NET.