Any embarrassing moments so far in your first projects?

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I can start...messed up and definitely sent a deck to the client that included many many working slides that were very much internal only. Whoops!

I feel bad no one bit on this so I'll share one. When I was rolling off a long-term project I had built this master Visio on my own time that diagrammed a ton of complex aspects of the solution we had built; kind of like an architecture diagram but even more functional / business relevant.

And as a kind of humble brag, when I rolled off I sent it as an attachment to the project team distro - which included some of the third-party vendors that worked on the project.

Immediate chaos. I was literally on my way to the airport to take some much needed PTO and our commercial director and other leaders were up in arms that I may have shared proprietary information with outside vendors and put client data at risk, etc. Worst feeling of that project TBH. It all worked out but I learned - on your last day, just thank everyone and wish them the best, don't try to do anything fancy on your way out.

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