How to Recognize the Antipattern
You might think it’s hard to show evidence of not doing something, but that isn’t always true. The following are some telltale signs of cutting corners:
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“We are adopting the new engineering process—that is, a lightweight version of it.”
Lightweight in this context means that the team intends to skip some tasks that the engineering process calls for. Some of these may be legitimate to skip, but it could also be a euphemism for not following important best practices.
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“We don’t need the DBA staff to attend training for our new source control system, since they don’t use it anyway.”
Excluding some technical team members from training (and probably access) ensures that they won’t use those tools.
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“How can ...
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