Avoid Reinventing Failed Approaches
Organisations repeatedly propose ideas that already failed - because the failure knowledge was never made findable.
"Didn't we already try this?" is one of the most expensive sentences in engineering. It usually appears after a team has invested in an approach the organisation already abandoned.
Why failed approaches return
- The failure lived in a Slack thread or a closed initiative
- The decision record captured the outcome but not the reason
- New teammates never saw the prior attempt
- Search cannot connect the old work to the current system
Preserve prior art
- ✓ Record what was tried and why it failed
- ✓ Link that knowledge to the relevant services
- ✓ Keep the constraint visible even after the project dies
- ✓ Surface prior attempts during new solution design
Keep prior art visible
Prodigent helps teams connect past decisions and failed approaches to the systems they still affect.
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