Strategy

by Sajin on December 9, 2009

Assume you’re doing a huge project
You detail it to levels of complexity that can’t be handled
Spend millions and develop it over couple of years
Spend more millions and maintain it for an year

Then comes realisation… this can’t go on!
So you decide to scrap it completely to save the millions you would otherwise spend maintaining it.

Now we make a plan to use a new tool and fewer millions
Whom do you bring in to envision and plan that? Whom do you trust to do it right this time?
The same team that totally messed it up during the previous attempt, of course!
After all they have the “context”.

Are we acting naive or really are, to assume a tool would make all the difference!!!

Disclaimer: This is completely a fictional case study, not resembling anything done or to be done

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