Timeline for Canceling a project gracefully
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:48 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| May 21, 2014 at 5:56 | history | edited | gnat | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
wordsmithing // mosly based on http://workplace.stackexchange.com/a/7239/168
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| May 15, 2014 at 21:08 | comment | added | Bobson |
@BrianS - I keep a fortune cookie fortune with that saying on my desk. It phrases it a bit more pithily, though: Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
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| May 15, 2014 at 19:49 | comment | added | gnat | @JanFabry good note, I adjusted the wording to account for that. Cancelled project doesn't necessarily mean failure | |
| May 15, 2014 at 19:48 | history | edited | gnat | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 15, 2014 at 19:43 | comment | added | Jan Fabry | I think we can debate whether this should be considered a "failure" or not, because failure implies (to some?) that somebody made a mistake, and this is not necessarily the case here. Business priorities can change based on new information, so it's possible that a valid decision last week ("continue with the project") becomes invalid this week ("our competitors launched X, stop our project"). Certainly the developers should not leave the project with the idea that they failed somehow. | |
| May 15, 2014 at 15:02 | comment | added | Brian S | +1. To quote/paraphrase many writers (it's entirely unclear who said it first), "Good judgement is the result of experience; however, experience is usually gained as a result of bad judgement." Learning from failures is exactly what's meant by getting back on the horse after you fall off. (... unless you're actually trying to break in a real horse, then it's about teaching the horse, not yourself. Po-tay-toe, po-tah-toe.) | |
| May 15, 2014 at 14:58 | history | edited | gnat | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 15, 2014 at 11:23 | history | edited | gnat | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 15, 2014 at 11:16 | history | answered | gnat | CC BY-SA 3.0 |