How does this skill help avoid the sunk cost fallacy?

It provides structured techniques like 'pre-mortem inversion' to help teams evaluate projects based on future potential and opportunity costs rather than past investments.

What is the difference between pivoting and killing a project?

A pivot is recommended when the core customer pain is real but the execution is wrong; a kill is necessary when the underlying hypothesis is invalid or the market is too small.

When should kill criteria be established?

Ideally, kill criteria should be set before a project launches to ensure objective decision-making that isn't influenced by active emotional or financial investment.

What are kill criteria?

Kill criteria are pre-defined, objective conditions that trigger the termination of a project, product, or initiative to prevent wasted resources and emotional bias.

Who should have the authority to trigger an exit ramp?

The skill suggests assigning clear decision rights to a specific individual rather than relying on team consensus, which often leads to paralysis in difficult situations.

Kill Criteria & Exit Ramps

Name: Kill Criteria & Exit Ramps
Author: lyndonkl

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Provides objective frameworks and disciplined decision-making patterns for determining when to continue, pivot, or terminate projects.

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The Kill Criteria & Exit Ramps skill empowers teams to overcome the sunk cost fallacy by establishing rigorous, data-driven stopping rules for any initiative. It offers structured patterns for setting up-front success metrics, milestone-based 'go/no-go' gates, and systematic pivot-versus-kill frameworks. By formalizing exit strategies before emotional or financial investments peak, this skill helps developers and project leads optimize resource allocation, manage opportunity costs, and maintain a healthy project portfolio through disciplined termination or strategic redirection.

Características Principales

Milestone-based Go/No-Go gate structures
Upfront kill criteria definition for new initiatives
Sunk cost trap avoidance techniques
8 GitHub stars
Pivot vs. Kill decision frameworks
Trigger-based exit ramp monitoring

Casos de Uso

Managing a portfolio of initiatives to identify and prune 'zombie projects' that drain resources
Evaluating whether to pivot a struggling project or reallocate its resources to high-performers
Setting objective success thresholds before launching a new product feature or experiment

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Características Principales

Milestone-based Go/No-Go gate structures
Upfront kill criteria definition for new initiatives
Sunk cost trap avoidance techniques
8 GitHub stars
Pivot vs. Kill decision frameworks
Trigger-based exit ramp monitoring

Casos de Uso

Managing a portfolio of initiatives to identify and prune 'zombie projects' that drain resources
Evaluating whether to pivot a struggling project or reallocate its resources to high-performers
Setting objective success thresholds before launching a new product feature or experiment