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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.

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What we've seen

Everyone knows this project has failed, but nobody wants to be the one to say so.

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