Ineffective development
January 2, 2006 | Posted by stuartchurch | Filed under Design, Processes, Project Management, Technology
Classic mistakes enumerated is an excellent list of common mistakes in software development projects. Of the 36 items on the list, the ones that resonate most with me are:
- Adding people to a late project.
- Lack of stakeholder buy-in.
- Lack of user input.
- Politics placed over substance.
- Overly optimistic schedules.
- Shortchanged upstream activities (i.e. missing out requirements/IA/design and diving straight into code)
- Inadequate design.
- Omitting necessary tasks from estimates.
- Feature creep.
- Research-oriented development.
- Overestimated savings from new tools or methods.
- Switching tools in the middle of a project.
(via bBlog)
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