My top five:
1. No daily build and smoke - failure to get the bad news early
2. No unit tests
3. No reviews
4. Code that is hard to understand (follow Linus Thorvald's guidelines)
5. Aggressive scheduling leading to Muri
So when code is not subjected to these it is like work-in-progress widgets inventory piling up at a machine. It is inventory piling up.
Okay the code works fine, passes all the tests, but there is no user manual. Or it is hard to modify because it is a Bhoot Bangla (going slightly off topic see an oil rig that was one).
When we say we have shipped, did we ship a finished product or was it work-in-progress?
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