> Stop the notion of being nice to the lack of skills of people. Projects don't fail because people are "too nice". Projects staffed with fully qualified peo

> Stop the notion of being nice to the lack of skills of people. Projects don't fail because people are "too nice". Projects staffed with fully qualified people with hardcore skills fail too. And projects staffed with utterly under-qualified people sometimes do just fine. The thing is projects succeed or fail for many different reasons, usually multiple reasons operating in concert. I think the best approach is not to be dogmatic about process and to recognize that "pointing fingers" rarely resolves anything, regardless of whether one is pointing at the process or the people.