Your Project Is 6 Months Late. Do You Fix It, Replace It, or Kill It?

The New Physician: Today’s Difficult Problem · Aug 30, 2026 · 6m

A project is months late, over budget, and everyone keeps saying it is “almost there.”

What do you do when you have 48 hours to decide whether to keep funding it?

Use a simple framework:

STOP

Freeze new commitments long enough to stop throwing money at the problem automatically.

SEE

Find out what is actually true. What was promised? What was delivered? What has already been spent? What still has to be spent? Is the problem technical, leadership, scope, vendor, or strategy?

Then ask the uncomfortable question:

If we were starting from scratch today, would we still choose to fund this project?…