Identify Corporate Antipatterns

We may have heard of programming design patterns, where people identify recurring patterns of programming solutions that have proven useful. This lesson will discuss the opposite, a collection of recurring patterns of business practices that have often proven counterproductive, misinformed, or downright irrelevant.

We cannot fix these ourselves; problems at this scale can take years and many hands to build.

So, let’s take note, and be prepared for a new job search if our company turns toxic to work in.

Then management buys off on the intricate schedule that says the product will ship in eighteen months. But there’s a catch: the product really has to ship in eighteen months. After all, there’s this scientific-looking graph proving it can ship in eighteen months, right? The rallying cry is, “The schedule is king.”