First and foremost, I believe we should approach any funded project as a business project, with the best practices of project management: SMART goals, clearly defined scope, roles, responsibilities, checkpoints, identified bottlenecks
Yes.
On the other hand, we should tolerate failure. Even the best ideas and projects may fail terribly, often due to bad luck or externalities the responsible people could not influence. And that's okay. Let’s not blame each other for past failures, not even for future ones; let’s learn our lessons instead.
Again yes.
How about starting with scrutinizing these projects publicly and analyzing their impact?
I was not involved with any of those projects beyond Vibes and I dont want to deal with that. I think VP had pretty regular reports so far. Its on people to judge those reports as they wish. Im just going to go forward applying my viewpoint on those projects you are talking about here. I shared my viewpoint on them here and you can extract how i will approach them in the future.
It doesn't seem the current reports are sufficient, to be honest. Anyway, who has access to all the data? Who oversaw the VP spending? Perhaps more than a single person, but still. From what I understood, many receipts and other documents have never been disclosed. I understand they might contain sensitive information, like names or people's IDs, but these can be easily redacted.
Before we adjust our approach for the future, let's learn from the past!
Well thats why i say theyre on people to judge. :)
Then it makes the impression that very little is going to change.
I can tell you the reports will definitely change. 😅