Task: regional teams were working on would be of interest to the districts. Chris responded that she had ageneral idea of what the other teams had been working on but did not feel she had sufficientinformation to present them to districts at this time. She went on to say that her team had focused ontheir project and that the plan was for them to go out and meet with all districts in the region after theproject was in a beta test so that they would have something specific to discuss. She reassured Megthat although she did not have a clear answer to the question right now, she would in the near future.Meg then asked Chris how she saw the integrated budget and planning system being marketed tolarge school districts given that most of them already seemed to have either systems or personnel todo this. Chris responded that she understood the concern and that, at this point in time, large districtsmight not be interested in the system in its current form. She went to say that as the system wasmodified and expanded it would very likely be of interest to larger districts. After this, Chris andMeg exchanged a few pleasantries and the meeting ended.The Monday Morning MeetingWhen Chris arrived for work on Monday morning she found that she had a message from Meg askingif they could meet for coffee at 10:30. Chris was curious about the meeting, but quickly respondedthat she would be available, and the two agreed to meet at a nearby coffee shop. After getting coffeeand talking a bit about the weekend, Meg told Chris that after reviewing her team's project and itspotential, she had decided that DSS would not go forward with the scheduling and budgeting project.When Chris asked for the reasons for this decision, Meg replied that the number of new products DSScould support was limited and that teams in the other regions had not reported any interest on the partof the districts they had worked with for this type of product. Meg also said that she was concernedthat the project would not be of interest to the large districts. Chris responded that she certainlyunderstood the issue about large districts but did not agree with Meg's observation. She went on tosay that she did not understand how other regional teams could say that there would not be a demandfor the product when they did not even know what the planning and scheduling system could do.Meg said that she appreciated Chris's concerns but that the decision to cancel the project was final.An awkward silence followed this last exchange. After a moment or two, Meg said that there wasone more thing left to discuss. She said that the Southwest Region Team would focus exclusively onmarketing DSS products and not be involved in product development work in the future and that therewould be some change to the composition of the team. Meg ended by asking Chris if she wasprepared to lead the group in a new direction or if she would be more comfortable and successfulreturning to the IT practice group as a functional specialist.