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A Report on How We Keep Failing Faster: Why Are We Still Pretending Tech Works?
- Tech projects continue to face high failure rates, with only 31% delivered successfully and 19% outright failing.
- Despite advancements in technology and methodologies, the gap between promises and delivery persists.
- The issue lies in building the right systems around technology, focusing on strategy, communication, and people.
- Teams often prioritize output over outcomes, leading to short-term wins but long-term inefficiencies.
- Poorly structured environments contribute to burnout, rework, and product failure, affecting even high-performing teams.
- Success is correlated with skilled sponsors, structured discovery phases, and a focus on technical debt as a measurable liability.
- Leadership incentives often neglect well-being, leading to burnout and erosion of focus and morale among developers.
- Failure patterns are rooted in poorly designed workflows and a lack of clear communication protocols.
- Pressure to deliver quickly results in cutting corners, accumulating technical debt, and increasing stress and confusion.
- The reliance on euphemisms like 'pivoting' hides the underlying dysfunction in modern tech work, leading to broken products and promises.
- To improve project success and team well-being, focus on leadership training, tracking technical debt, maintaining a balanced workload, and clarity in requirements.
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