Are you tired of feeling like you are stuck in a never-ending cycle of frustration, anger, or disappointment with the projects your organization is pursuing? You are not alone. In fact, so many of you reached out to me that I was motivated to write these posts about the Parade of Pointless Projects.

Let’s face it, some development projects have extremely low probabilities of success. Projects that are like zombies in your portfolio, sucking the life out of your organization. Here are a few examples of Pointless Projects: Cost-cutting, slashing product costs without considering the impact on customer value. Value destruction, removing customer value from a successful product to create a low-cost variant. Me-too products, hastily responding to the competitor’s latest move.