Wednesday, 28 March 2012

Project management anti-patterns

Avalanche: An inappropriate mashup of the Waterfall archetypal and Agile Development techniques

Death march: Everyone knows that the activity is traveling to be a adversity – except the CEO – so the accuracy is hidden to anticipate actual abandoning of the activity - (although the CEO generally knows and does it anyhow to aerate profit). However, the accuracy charcoal hidden and the activity is artificially kept animate until the Day Zero assuredly comes ("Big Bang"). Alternative definition: Employees are pressured to plan backward nights and weekends on a activity with an absurd deadline.

Groupthink: During groupthink, associates of the accumulation abstain announcement viewpoints alfresco the abundance area of accord thinking

Overengineering: Spending assets authoritative a activity added able-bodied and circuitous than is needed

Smoke and mirrors: Demonstrating unimplemented functions as if they were already implemented

Software bloat: Allowing alternating versions of a arrangement to appeal anytime added resources

Analysis anti-patterns

Bystander apathy: When a claim or architecture accommodation is wrong, but the humans who apprehension this do annihilation because it affects a beyond amount of people


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