Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That's what management is all about.
Tom DeMarcoWhat we are looking for is managers who are awake enough to alter the world as they find it, to make it harmonize with what they and their people are trying to accomplish.
Tom DeMarcoThe more you focus on control, the more likely you're working on a project that's striving to deliver something of relatively minor value.
Tom DeMarco