Six months in, I realized we were building the wrong thing. We didn't get fired, but that failure taught me something: project disasters follow predictable patterns. Excessive rework, stakeholders who won't engage, teams where nobody owns anything: the warning signs are always there. I've seen projects limp across the finish line enough times to know what to watch for. Here's what failure actually looks like, and how to spot it before you're already off the rails.
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