Should I still do any celebration if parts of the project didn't go well?

I've heard it said that sometime in your career in project management you will experience a project that goes completely successfully. I've yet to have that experience. I've been close a few times, but complete success still eludes me. We're all aware of the challenges presented by life on projects: change is a given, stuff happens, and nothing goes as planned. Now fast forward to the end of the project—do you decide not to celebrate the team's efforts just because something didn't go as well as it could?

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