The true success of project management
Aborting a failing project before completion is in fact a success. It is a success of forward thinking, of managing the process and of making the hard decisions when they need to be made.
Doesn't a project only really fail if it reaches it's conclusion without achieving it's goals, or extends beyond it's planned duration?
Identifying the point at which a project has gone unretrievably sour and calling it quits to avoid further waste of money is surely a success.
Failure should be taboo. What we label as failure is, I think, the real heart of the matter.
It may sound like semantics but I'd rather argue whether something was a failure or not, than argue whether failure should be taboo.
