He even said the developers were competent...at developing. They'd released some not-so-good software towards the end of the project due to "manager pressure".

He even said the developers were competent...at developing. They'd released some not-so-good software towards the end of the project due to "manager pressure". It sounds like they didn't have a good systems person though nor good (and general) software leadership, often good software leadership is also your early-stage systems person. Jacques here acted as their systems integrator to save the day along with what sounds like mild programming support to cleanup some of the unfinished software product that got pushed too early.