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101 Ways To Know Your Software Project Is Doomed

July 17, 2007

This post made me laugh out loud. Here are a few that I really liked:

The Continuous Integration server has returned the error message “Fuck it, I give up”

I've actually seen something like this coming from our Team Foundation Server!

The lead web developer thinks the X in XHTML means ‘extreme’

This would be something ...

Your favorite software pattern is God Object

When I just started working for my current company, I met a guy who was actually proud of this.

Your team believes ORM is a ‘fad’

I've convinced the team, but not the ivory tower decision makers ;-)

The phrase ‘It works on my machine’ is heard more than once a day

It's a poster on our wall (ha, explicit sarcasm).

Your manager spends his lunch hour crying in his car

Nonetheless, letting a manager cry in public is actually one of my life goals.

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Thank you for visiting my blog. I’m a professional software developer since Y2K. A blogger since Y2K+5. Provider of training and coaching in XP practices. Curator of the Awesome Talks list. Past organizer of the European Virtual ALT.NET meetings. Thinking and learning about all kinds of technologies since forever.

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