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...there is a clear and easy test for failing projects: Stop it.
If a project is failing, a request to stop the project for formal planning sessions and time-outs will be met with the clearest indicator of a fatal disease: "We can't stop the project for planning, we have a deadline to meet !"
I can't decide whether this is more often related to a head-in-the-sand state of denial, or rather a misguided belief that delivering something is better than delivering nothing, even when that something is out of control.
I do know that it is based, at least in part, by an equally misguided belief that "progress" can be achieved without a plan supporting an objective. (Thanks to C. Keith Ray for the "pointage.")
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