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copied!<p>The book "<a href="http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0471197130" rel="noreferrer">Antipatterns</a>" by William J. Brown et. al. has a bunch of project-related smells. They aren't always disasters in progress; mitigating circumstances exist for just about any smell.</p> <p>The Portland Pattern Repository also has a page on Antipatterns, covering many of the same topics as the "Antipatterns" book. Visit <a href="http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AntiPatternsCatalog" rel="noreferrer">http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AntiPatternsCatalog</a> and scroll down to "Management Antipatterns." A few examples:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AnalysisParalysis" rel="noreferrer">Analysis Paralysis</a> - a team of otherwise intelligent and well-meaning analysts enter into a phase of analysis that only ends when the project is cancelled.</li> <li><a href="http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GiveMeEstimatesNow" rel="noreferrer">Give Me Estimates Now</a> - a client (or PointyHairedBoss) demands estimates before you have enough data to deliver it. You accept the "challenge" and give out of the head estimates (i.e. guesses). The client/boss then treats the estimate as an iron-clad commitment. </li> <li><a href="http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GroundHogDayProject" rel="noreferrer">Ground Hog Day Project</a> - meetings are held which seem to discuss the same things over and over and over again. At the end of said meetings, decisions are made that "something must be done."</li> <li><a href="http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DesignByCommittee" rel="noreferrer">Design By Committee</a> - Given a political environment in which no one person has enough clout to present a design for a system and get it approved, how do you get a design done? Put together a big committee to solve the problem. Let them battle it out amongst themselves and finally take whatever comes out the end. </li> </ul> <p>Collect them all! :-)</p>

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