For a successful project, you need an effective steering committee and an influential sponsor who cares about what you’re trying to achieve in the project. Ideally the sponsor should chair the committee.
We had our first steering committee meeting today.
The sponsor/chair opened the meeting.
He tabled a single printed page, an excerpt from a book: Yes Minister’s Guidelines on How to Kill or Suppress a Report (from the episode “The Greasy Pole”).
He referred us to the agenda (including item 3, discussion of the draft report), and the meeting began in earnest.
I have a feeling this project will go well :-)
