dead horses

Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.

However, software companies, often try other strategies with dead horses, including the following:

1. Buying a stronger whip.
2. Changing riders.
3. Saying things like "This is the way we always have ridden this horse."
4. Appointing an inter-departmental committee to study the horse.
5. Arranging to visit other countries to see how they ride dead horses.
6. Increasing the standards to ride dead horses.
7. Appointing a tiger team to revive the dead horse.
8. Creating another inter-departmental committee to increase our riding ability.
9. Comparing the state of dead horses in today's environment.
10. Changing the requirements to declare that "This horse is not dead."
11. Hiring contractors to ride the dead horse.
12. Harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed.
13. Declaring that "No horse is too dead to beat."
14. Providing additional funding to increase the horse's performance.
15. Hiring a consultant to see if contractors can ride it cheaper.
16. Purchasing a product that makes dead horses run faster.
17. Declaring the horse is "better, faster and cheaper" dead
18. Forming yet another inter-departmental committee to find alternative uses for dead horses.
19. Revisiting performance requirements for horses.
20. Saying this horse was procured with cost as an independent variable.
21. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position