Software Engineering Antipatterns From CRC Press

A collection of bad practices from Antipatterns: Identification, Refactoring, and Management (Auerbach Series on Applied Software Engineering).

Management Antipatterns

• Absentee Manager
• All You Have is a Hammer
• Cage Match Negotiator
• Doppelganger
• Fruitless Hoops
• Golden Child
• Headless Chicken
• Leader Not Manager
• Manager Not Leader
• Managerial Cloning
• Metric Abuse
• Mr. Nice Guy
• Mushroom Management
• Plate Spinning
• Proletariat Hero
• Rising Upstart
• Road to Nowhere
• Spineless Executive
• Three Headed Knight
• Ultimate Weapon
• Warm Bodies

Environmental Antipatterns

• Ant Colony
• Atlas Shrug
• Autonomous Collective
• Boiling Frog Syndrome
• Burning Bag of Dung
• Buzzword Mania
• Deflated Balloon
• Divergent Goals
• Dogmatic about Dysfunction
• Dunkirk Spirit
• The Emperor’s New Clothes
• Fairness Doctrine
• Fools Rush In
• Founderitis
• French Waiter Syndrome
• Geek Hazing
• Institutional Mistrust
• Kiosk City
• Mediocracy
• One-Eyed King
• Orange Stand Economics
• Pitcairn Island
• Potemkin Village
• Process Clash
• Rubik’s Cube
• Shoeless Children
• Worshiping the Golden Calf