Aim for product excellence, not project completion

While it’s important to execute projects well, the true measure of success lies in the quality, impact, and longevity of the product, not the completion of the projects that built the product. Sacrifice a project for the good of the product.

If you have been working on a software development project that you expect to take three years to complete, and you learn something new along the way, or a new technology like chap-gpt comes along that gives you new ideas, don’t be afraid to cancel the project and call the project a failure. The product is more important than the projects used to build it. Always do what is best for the product, even if it means a project is delayed or cancelled.