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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.

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Everyone on your team knows the project is doomed, but no one will say it out loud.

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