EDITORIAL: Avoiding anti-patterns at work can help you sleep at night

Unfortunately, adopting the latest set of best practices is only half the issue -- we must also work to eliminate the damaging practices that already exist, and which feed the toxic environments so many of us feel we work within. Of course there are definitely more anti-patterns left to be discovere...

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Published inKnight Ridder Tribune Business News p. 1
Format Newsletter
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington Tribune Content Agency LLC 13.03.2006
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Summary:Unfortunately, adopting the latest set of best practices is only half the issue -- we must also work to eliminate the damaging practices that already exist, and which feed the toxic environments so many of us feel we work within. Of course there are definitely more anti-patterns left to be discovered -- and we seek them every day. No matter which anti- patterns your organization suffers from, however, these habitually detrimental practices can be crippling, and even lethal, to the organization. Phillip Laplante and Colin Neill are associate professors of software engineering at Penn State Great Valley graduate school. They recently published a popular book on the subject of anti- patterns, "Antipatterns: Identification, Refactoring and Management," published by Auerbach Press. The opinion of the columnists does not necessarily reflect the viewpoint of the university.