"should be incredibly rare". Not incredibly, it's rare, but it happens (seen it in two small companies, it killed them; saw it in several ESN/consultancy projec

"should be incredibly rare". Not incredibly, it's rare, but it happens (seen it in two small companies, it killed them; saw it in several ESN/consultancy projects, it killed the contract, but was a manageable event in the whole company; saw it in medium software companies, it killed the projects and sometimes pushed for strategy changes). It happens enough for many (not all) individuals to have noticed across their career (especially when in management, where a big part of their role is already to manage risk). It happens enough for any single company to be quite traumatized by it when it happened, and to try to avoid it in the future. Where some companies do it differently is: they don't overreact, they understand that this is a risk management issue and that you can balance it, and/or they don't setup a "general case" for all projets/teams (depending on the type of the project). This requires quite some serenity and perspective.