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Scenario

When product teams avoid admitting a major initiative isn't working

Our product team has been working on this major feature for eight months and everyone knows it's not going to work but we keep having sprint planning meetings where we pretend we're making progress. The engineering lead won't say the architecture is fundamentally flawed, the designer won't say the user research doesn't support it, and I won't say that the business case never made sense.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A team is collectively maintaining a fiction about project viability rather than confronting the uncomfortable reality that months of work may need to be abandoned.

Your guide for this
Aurelius
Aurelius works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Product?”

Peri

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