Kill the Project. Build a Team.
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Argues that reliability fails when treated as timeboxed projects and shows an alternative: dismantle the Gantt, hire a small core team of 0.2 FTE security and 1.3 FTE operations, treat work as ongoing life cycles, and stop reporting to steering committees. Team members drop handoffs, increase transparency, iterate on the platform, and accept shared ownership. Result: the platform steadily improves, collaboration deepens, and operational reliability becomes a lasting capability rather than a checklist completed at a deadline.
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