Attack of the Rampaging Stakeholders

This s a practical guide to leading large groups of stakeholders through a project. The project in question involves users at 23 colleges and a system office, with active participation of student records, business office, financial aid, security, and technical staff forming an extraordinarily diverse group of stake holders. This group worked together and reached consensus on hundreds of different issues through the life of the project itself, and we'll use this as a backdrop to a discussion of consensus-based management.