Giving junior devs all the greenfield applications as "learning experiences". Because groundwork should always be laid by those with the least experience.
Haphazard task assignment - I build a feature, then when they need an enhancement, it often gets given to someone else with no understanding of how it works, even though I am free.
Cargo culting in general. We do "Kanban" just to say we do, despite it having zero relevance to how we actually work. It's buzzwordy. Insistence on daily standup despite having very good communication and everyone knowing what everyone else is doing, were a small team in an open office.
Pushing for faster code review and generally treating it as a negative thing that just slows us down.
Previously we actually hired more devs to "help" get a project out the door - I think we all know what the mythical man month has to say about that.
Having to argue about basic security practices. I got in a heated argument about how we needed to encrypt temporary passwords even though they were system generated. I'm still angry. They wanted to be able to look them up for users. Sigh.
Haphazard task assignment - I build a feature, then when they need an enhancement, it often gets given to someone else with no understanding of how it works, even though I am free.
Cargo culting in general. We do "Kanban" just to say we do, despite it having zero relevance to how we actually work. It's buzzwordy. Insistence on daily standup despite having very good communication and everyone knowing what everyone else is doing, were a small team in an open office.
Pushing for faster code review and generally treating it as a negative thing that just slows us down.
Previously we actually hired more devs to "help" get a project out the door - I think we all know what the mythical man month has to say about that.
Having to argue about basic security practices. I got in a heated argument about how we needed to encrypt temporary passwords even though they were system generated. I'm still angry. They wanted to be able to look them up for users. Sigh.