The Handbook of Program Management Quotes

“it is often the best people who make the worst mistakes, because the best people do the most complex work. For this reason, they will attempt to do what it takes to make it happen and will try the most creative solutions.”
― James T. Brown, The Handbook of Program Management: How to Facilitate Project Success with Optimal Program Management

“Another strategy for dealing with meddling stakeholders is to overwhelm them with tasks and communication. They insist on being involved, so involve them. If they have time to be this involved, give them work to do and assign actions to keep them busy with nonrisky or unimportant activities. Real work often makes people invisible and may make a meddling stakeholder invisible too.”
― James T. Brown, The Handbook of Program Management: How to Facilitate Project Success with Optimal Program Management

“Hell hath no fury like a stakeholder scorned.”
― James T. Brown, The Handbook of Program Management: How to Facilitate Project Success with Optimal Program Management

“Successful program management is about choosing a right pathway and owning the advantages and disadvantages of the chosen path, because in the real world the optimal or perfect path doesn’t exist.”
― James T. Brown, The Handbook of Program Management: How to Facilitate Project Success with Optimal Program Management