Death March: The Complete Software Developer's Guide to Surviving "Mission Impossible" Projects¶
Yourdon, E. (1997). Death March: The Complete Software Developer's Guide to Surviving "Mission Impossible" Projects.
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- Anti-Pattern Catalog
- Its failure mode is anti-pattern zealotry: once every difficulty has a scary name, the catalog becomes a cynicism engine and every hard project gets branded a Big Ball of Mud or a Death March
This sourcePopularized the death march label for projects whose schedule, staffing, or budget constraints make failure all but certain, yet which proceed anyway.
- Its failure mode is anti-pattern zealotry: once every difficulty has a scary name, the catalog becomes a cynicism engine and every hard project gets branded a Big Ball of Mud or a Death March
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