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Welcome Back to Life.

The long journey of the short chapter in the project has finally come to an end. Three months may seem like a very short period to develop a prototype product, but it is definitely a gruesome ordeal for all of us. In knowledge management, there is an emphasis on the lessons learned. So I guess this will serve as some kind of AAR (after action review) for me. To me, this project has another meaning to it. To stand in for my PM who departed for his studies, it was about daily fire-fighting and earning the respect. You don't really have a choice to back down, when the project seemed to be doom right from the start. A few of my teammates joked that I could write a thesis or case study on how a project can fail. And it would be really really thick. We were working against a ridiculous deadline with changing requirements. And it was not helpful to hear some superior telling me that we were taking high risk and should admit we were unable to deliver. But who were we to admit so? We could