{"id":149,"date":"2025-09-23T17:01:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T15:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterpagac.sk\/?p=149"},"modified":"2025-09-26T22:47:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T20:47:01","slug":"definition-of-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterpagac.sk\/en\/definition-of-quit\/","title":{"rendered":"Should we use a \u201cDefinition of Quit\u201d in addition to a \u201cDefinition of Done\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\">Do you know this? &#8220;We&#8217;ve already put 80 hours into it, we can&#8217;t stop now even if the reasons and expectations for why we&#8217;re doing something have changed!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2 wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, you can. 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