Frankly, I'm scared. And if people here start to recognize it too then I'll know the world has gone crazy.

I tell people at work that a poorly run and chaotic project that ships without GIANT major issues is seen as a HUGE WIN.

Doesn't matter how crazy it was, what risks we took, how many people were disrespected or abused - if it ships and doesn't *blow up* then it's a huge win.

So every time we do a post-mortem on a project people don't point out any issue, or if they do they are overwhelmed by people talking about how well it went.

We never learn anything.