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Scenario

When teams can't admit a project needs to die

Our product team has been working on this feature for four months and everyone can see it's not going to work but no one wants to be the person who says we should kill it. We keep having meetings where we discuss 'iterations' and 'pivots' but what we really need to do is admit we were wrong and start over.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group is collectively avoiding the difficult truth that their shared investment of time and energy has failed.

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