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After a Failure, Revert to the Last Known Working State
Both long and short-running projects will, at some point, face a failure. Sometimes it is possible to plan around them or include them as part of a risk management and mitigation program. Sometimes, however, failures appear unexpectedly, bringing an entire project to a halt and perhaps challenging its continuity.