"Saving the project" has become a massive red flag for me. In my experience, when anything about "saving" is mentioned, it means a handful of people started th

"Saving the project" has become a massive red flag for me. In my experience, when anything about "saving" is mentioned, it means a handful of people started the project, made a hash of it, then after a few short weeks passed it off to another team who were tasked with "saving it". This second team blames all their failures on the first, thinks that they are making the best of a bad situation, then after a few months passes it off again. The new people comfort themselves with the same "saving the project" narrative for a while more until it again comes time for somebody else to save it. Each team after the first lasts only as long as they can plausibly believe that everything is the fault of the people that came before them. As soon as they realize that their shit stinks too, they bounce. In the end, 90%+ of the man hours in a project were put in by people who thought they were saving it.