Mustafa Toroman
Antipatterns - nemesis of software development
#1about 2 minutes
Understanding the concept of software antipatterns
Antipatterns are common but ineffective solutions to recurring problems, representing the opposite of best practices or design patterns.
#2about 3 minutes
Avoiding flawed organizational decision-making processes
Organizational antipatterns like analysis paralysis, bicycle-shedding, and design by committee lead to overthinking trivial issues and lacking a unified vision.
#3about 5 minutes
Recognizing common project and product management pitfalls
Antipatterns like adopting bleeding-edge tech prematurely, neglecting cash-cow products, or escalating commitment to bad decisions can derail projects.
#4about 6 minutes
Identifying destructive management and leadership styles
Harmful management styles like micromanagement, seagull management, and fostering silos or groupthink can destroy team morale and productivity.
#5about 4 minutes
Understanding flawed project planning and resourcing
Project failure antipatterns include the death march, ignoring Brooks's Law by adding people to a late project, and allowing uncontrolled scope creep.
#6about 4 minutes
Avoiding ineffective development and implementation practices
Developers should avoid antipatterns like overengineering solutions, gold plating tasks beyond requirements, and using smoke and mirrors to fake progress.
#7about 4 minutes
Preventing architectural decay and code structure issues
Architectural antipatterns like the big ball of mud, spaghetti code, and lasagna code result from a lack of structure and consistent refactoring.
#8about 3 minutes
Recognizing object-oriented and dependency antipatterns
Common code-level antipatterns include circular dependencies, god objects that know too much, and inefficient busy waiting loops.
#9about 4 minutes
Avoiding common coding and logic antipatterns
Poor coding habits include handling every edge case individually, hiding errors, hard-coding values, and cargo cult programming without understanding the 'why'.
#10about 4 minutes
Addressing the misuse of tools, code, and dependencies
Antipatterns like copy-paste programming, the golden hammer mindset, and dependency hell arise from misusing code, tools, and libraries without proper strategy.
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