How to Kill a Software Project

Show the same demo twice to the same audience.


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Focus on the technologies, not the problems and scenarios.


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Fail to maximize return on investments; for example, developing proof-of-concept prototypes is more effective than adding additional content to an existing prototype.


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Change project focus from the larger scale to the smaller scale.


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Don’t maintain consistency between releases.


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Isolate team efforts from other groups within an organization.


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Rewrite existing clients, servers, and applications.


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Change the purpose of the system, so that the models describe the wrong focus and objects.