People really didn't like that comment. Imagine your boss was running this program. You're in a regulated industry, so he's forced to ask another team to pick

People really didn't like that comment. Imagine your boss was running this program. You're in a regulated industry, so he's forced to ask another team to pick the budget and the basic design... though the majority are actually his guys. His job is to keep sending it back with fixes until he's confident enough to put his name on it. It's just a design, so his job then switches to putting together the team to run the project and then actually running it. The first project ended up giving the wrong people tons of money and then running out of funds. He's free to propose something else, but if he doesn't have any real ideas, the board tells him to try to at least get this right. He's seen what other orgs have done, but rather try this again..