Failure Is Not an Option It's a Fact
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Data from an April 2011 HBR review and a study of 1400 projects analyzed show failure types split into preventable vs complexity vs intelligent failures and that one in six projects overran by 200% with average overruns ~70%. Practical advice includes many concrete test types — unit, integration, contract (consumer/provider), UI, end‑to‑end, API acceptance and exploratory — and a practice borrowed from X: kill risky projects early and reward evidence‑based termination to surface useful, intelligent failures.
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