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All You Have Is a Hammer
Anybody Syndrome
Bad Management By Metrics
Bicycle Shed
Big Design Up Front
Big Requirements Documentation
Black-Cloud
Blame The Messenger
Blamer
Bleeding Edge
Born Again Developer
Bottleneck
Broken Iron Triangle
Buff And Shine A Rusty Car
Bystander Apathy
Cage Match Negotiator
Car Park Syndrome
Cash Cow
Change Prevention Process
Copy And Paste Programming
Corncob
Corporate Shark
Cosmetic Surgery
Creation Dependence
Customer Caused Disruption
Customer Product Owner
Deadwood
Decision By Arithmetic
Dependency Hell
Design By Committee
Discordant Reward Mechanisms
DLL Hell
Dragon Slaying
Dry Waterhole
Dueling Corncobs
Egalitarian Compensation
Email Flaming
Email Is Dangerous
Escalation Of Commitment
Every Fool Their Own Tool
Extension Conflict
Fear Of Success
Fungible Project Manager
Geographically Distributed Development
Give Me Estimates Now
Glass Wall
Golden Child
Golden Hammer
Groupthink
Headless Chicken
Heir Apparent
Hero Culture
Hours In Progress Monitoring
Hypocritical Preacher
Idiot Proof Process
If It Ain’t Broke Don’t Fix It
If It Is Working Don’t Change
Implementation Issue
Improbability Factor
Inappropriate Technical Objective
Indifferent Specialist
Inflexible Plan
Intellectual Violence
Invented Here
Invisible Progress
It's Not Rocket Science
JAR Hell
Kill The Messenger
Leader Not Manager
Leading Request
List Dictator
Long Or Non-Existent Feedback Loops
Loose Cannon
Management By Numbers
Management By Objectives
Manager Controls Process
Manager Not Leader
Managerial Cloning
Metric Abuse
Metric Madness
Micromanagement
Mind Reader
Moral Hazard
Mr. Nice Guy
Mushroom Management
Myopic Delivery
Mythical Man Month
Net Negative Producing Programmer
Ninety-Ninety Rule
No Sprint Retrospective
Non-Creative Intelligence
Not Invented Here
Online Backstabber
One Trick Pony
Organisational Silo
Ostrich
Overengineering
Pairing Prison
Pardon My Dust
Paved With Good Intentions
Peter Principle
Plate Spinning
Plug Compatible Interchangeable Engineers
Premature Optimization
Process Disintegration
Process Mismatch
Product Owner Without Authority
Programming By Accident
Programming By Coincidence
Programming By Permutation
Project Mismanagement
Proletariat Hero
Radio-Silence
Requirement Creep
Rising Upstart
Scapegoat
Scope Creep
Seagull Management
Seat Warmers
Selling A Product You Can’t Realize
Semi-Functional Teams
Shaken But Not Stirred
Shoot The Messenger
Silver Bullet
Size Isn’t Everything - see Brooks' Law
Smoke And Mirrors
Software Merger
Spammer
Spineless Executive
Standing On The Shoulders Of Midgets
Subsequent Adjustment
Team Keeps Hacking Away
Territorial Managers
Tester Driven Development
Testing In Next Sprint
The Brawl
The Customer
The Customers Are Idiots
The Domino Effect
The Feud
The Grand Old Duke Of York
The Quick Fix
The Process Is The Deliverable
They Understood Me
Third-World Information Systems Troubles
Three Headed Knight
Throw It Over The Wall - see Thrown Over The Wall
Too Long Sprint
Train The Trainer
True Believer
Turf Wars
Typecasting
Ultimate Weapon
Unjustified Criticizer
Unknown Poster
Unordered Product Backlog
Users Are Idiots
Varying Sprint Length
Vendor Lock-In
Vietnam War
Visibility Gets You Shot
Waterfall
We Are Idiots
Weekend Hackathons
Wild Goose Chase
Work Estimates Given To Teams
Yes Man
Yet Another Meeting Will Solve It
Yet Another Programmer
Yet Another Thread Will Solve It
You Aren’t Gonna Need It