Anti-Patterns

What are Anti-Patterns? Anti-Patterns are common pitfalls that increase complexity with no benefit, decrease flexibility, increase costs and cause project failures.

Learning from others' mistakes is less painful than learning from our own mistakes. Ways to apply anti-patterns inlcude the following:

1. Avoidance - Prevent the anti-pattern from happening.
2. Remediation - Undo or correct the anti-pattern.
3. Mitigation - Lessen the impact of the anti-pattern.
4. Containment - Prevent the damage of the anti-pattern from spreading.