Identify Corporate Antipatterns
Explore common corporate antipatterns that affect software projects, including unrealistic schedules, adding programmers to late projects, reliance on the hockey stick sales curve, and challenges of big rewrites. Understand these patterns to prepare for workplace realities and improve communication and project outcomes.
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Recurring patterns
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.
The schedule is king
Project managers love Gantt charts. Remember the simple one from Waterfall Project Management? Imagine that with 500 lines and 100 cross-dependencies. That’s the kind of Gantt charts project managers actually make.
Then management buys off on the intricate schedule that says the product will ship in eighteen months. But there’s a catch: the ...