Insights

The projects that stall in the middle are often harder to recover than the ones that fail outright. A failed project produces a clear decision: the initiative ends and resources are redirected. The ambiguity of a stalled migration produces something harder to manage. There are sunk costs, open vendor contracts, a partially configured platform, and a team that has consumed its bandwidth on decisions that have not resolved. The technical work can continue, but often the organizational work cannot, and that asymmetry is almost always the source of the problem.