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Adil Faisal / August 12, 2021

Anti-patterns

Anti-patterns seen in the organization at team, program, portfolio level.

Build the right thing

  • Alignment of product with portfolio not well understood
  • Skip product chartering
  • Not listening to the customer / stakeholder voice over own voice.
  • Not doing “why this, why now?” prioritization before taking on work
  • Not having a clear, measurable hypothesis before picking up major work.
  • Not completing the “learning cycle”

Build the thing right

  • Pushing code-debt down the road, be reactive, rather than pro-active.
  • Deep silo is a major issue. Major subsystems owned by a single person, sometimes resistant to relinquish control.
  • Code not in repo.
  • Database scripts are out of repository.
  • Database and Code are not versioned together.
  • Change management not in place. No discipline around release of versioned software to different environments, to facilitate roll back, roll forward, bug tracking etc.

Built the thing fast

  • Ditch retrospective.
  • Skip team chartering
  • Output tracking over Outcome tracking at the leadership level
  • Lack of output tracking at the team level

Funding and Budgeting (PMO stuff)

  • Output, not outcome, driven funding, commitment
  • Year-long Commitment around old recommendations (70/70 items in recommendations done 3 years back will be delivered.)

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