Capital Insights

Weekly Capital Planning: Decide Which Unfinished Work to Stop

Medro Advisors · Research and commentary from Don McClain

By Don McClain | Founder & Principal, Medro Advisors

The archived Monday brief assigns actions to priorities. Add a stop-work decision for tasks carried forward repeatedly. Record the original reason, effort remaining, evidence learned and opportunity cost of continuing. Choose continue, redesign, defer or stop; give the choice an owner. A task should not remain active merely because money or time was already spent. Removing obsolete work can release the same management capacity that a new capital project needs. Review dependencies before withdrawing resources.

Source: Medro archive, September 7, 2026.
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