Trailing2Dots

Some actual anti patterns I've experienced:

* When a project is declared "finished" break the team apart and spread them about the company. Because the original dev never see the code again, why should they care.

* When a project is late, and it always is, pull out the original schedule rammed down our throats when the project was first started. Then it's easy to see who to blame.

* Have legal (YES!) decide rules for agile. True: they decided on 1 week deliverables, demanded complete documentation per week, insisted on a waterfall approach to design and dev. "When you've done it, you don't have to revisit the past!"

* Documentation was in charge of dev: "They read the docs and know what needs to be done:. I never figured out who "they" were.

* Create a lengthy, complex paper trail for deliverables.

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