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Top Mistakes In Software Projects
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02.04.2006
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- People Related Mistakes
- Undetermined motivation
- Weak personnel
- Uncontrolled problem employees
- Heroics
- Adding people to a late project
- Noisy, crowded offices
- Friction between developers and customers
- Unrealistic expectations
- Lack of effective project sponsorship
- Lack of stakeholder buy-in
- Lack of user input
- Politics placed over substance
- Wishful thinking
- Process Related Mistakes
- Overly optimistic schedules
- Insufficient risk management
- Contractor failure
- Insufficient planning
- Abandonment of planning under pressure
- Wasted time during the fuzzy front end
- Shortchanged upstream activities
- Inadequate design
- Shortchanged quality assurance
- Insufficient management controls
- Premature or overly frequent convergence
- Omitting necessary tasks from estimates
- Planning to catch up later
- Code like hell programming
- Product Related Mistakes
- Requirements gold-plating
- Feature creep
- Developer gold-plating
- Push-me, pull-me negotiation
- Research-oriented development
- Technology Related Mistakes
- Silver-bullet syndrome
- Overestimated savings from new tools or methods
- Switching tools in the middle of a project
- Lack of automated source-code control
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