"Sometimes, it's true, the best laid programming plans go astray with no warnings, but more often than not, a doomed ending is all too obvious to anyone paying close attention along the way."
This article packs a baker's dozen of warning signs for management of likely software project failure, including:
- Shifts in management support
- Programmers jumping ship
- Simple things take too long
- Developers continually defer to one genius
- Eyes drifting to the shiny and new
- And 8 more …
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