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The Five Deadly Sins of Software Development

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There's a list of deadly sins out there for just about anything related to information technology. Some have seven items, some have five, some even have nine. I haven't seen one with 21 deadly sins yet, but I won't be surprised if I do. Some focus on IT departments, some on unused software, some on agile software development, and quite a few on whatever they're trying to sell you.

We've seen a lot in our ten years of developing software at Pathfinder, and the list that rings truest is the shortest and pithiest, from the Standish Group:

  • Ambition
  • Arrogance
  • Ignorance
  • Fraudulence
  • Abstinence

Each of these is best illustrated by example:
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