IDG Contributor Network: 3 key steps to shutting down a project

We sometimes have clients who find that, for whatever reason, they must cancel a project. It may be lack if funding, it may be a change of organizational direction and priority, and it could be that the only guy really championing the effort just got fired and no one else cares about the project that much. It happens.But let's turn the tables. How many times do we find that we have to cancel a project on one of our project clients? Has this ever happened on one of your projects? What could possi