What are Anti-Patterns? And what are some common Project Management Anti-Patterns?

The term Anti-pattern has come into Project Management from the software engineering world, via the Agile community. But, what does it mean?

There are a lot of examples of anti-patterns in software engineering, and also, specifically, in Agile development. Here, I describe some of the most important Project Management anti-patterns.

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⏱ Chapter Markers...
00:00 - Start
00:16 - The origin of Anti-patterns
00:42 - What is an Anti-pattern?
01:38 - The Key Characteristics of an Anti-pattern
02:43 - Examples of Anti-patterns
03:02 - Over-planning
03:24 - Ignoring stakeholder input and feedback
04:02 - Unrealistic deadlines
04:32 - Over-allocating resources
05:17 - One-size-fits-all
05:56 - Scope creep
06:22 - Command and Control
07:09 - Milestones for Micromanagement
08:00 - Management by Crisis
08:56 - Data for Data’s sake
09:26 - Over-analysis
09:45 - Communications overload… or underload
09:55 - Death by PowerPoint
10:15 - Unclear Responsibility / Accountability
10:37 - ‘Blowhard Jamboree’
10:55 - Excessive documentation
11:09 - Endless meetings
11:23 - Summing-up Anti-patterns


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