Software process anti-patterns catalogue

Brada, Přemek; Picha, Petr

doi:10.1145/3361149.3361178

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“…Politowski et al [14] report that "feature creep, and, to a less degree, delays, are recurring problems during game development". Therefore, even though this anti-pattern is not referenced by Brada and Picha [2] in their catalog, we argue it is not a game-specific issue, since it is widely known both in video games and traditional software industries. 4.2.2 Feature Cuts.…”

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confidence: 87%

“…For each anti-pattern candidate, we manually searched for a fitting project management anti-pattern in the software-engineering literature [2,3,9]. For example, we related "Underbudgeted Project" to the Shoeless Children anti-pattern from Brown et al [3] because they both describe the same problem (deprivation of resources) and solution (strategic budget cutting that excludes essential infrastructure).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Brada and Picha [2] shows a more complete and up-to-date review of the software project management anti-patterns, which they refer to as "process anti-patterns". They created a open catalog of anti-patterns using various sources 5 .…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Problem: Over the past years, many project management issues have been reported in the video game development industry 1,2,3 . These were not isolated issues: 45% of problems documented in postmortems are related to management practices [14].…”

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Video Game Project Management Anti-patterns

Ullmann¹,

Politowski²,

Guéhéneuc³

et al. 2022

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Project Management anti-patterns are well-documented in the software-engineering literature, and studying them allows understanding their impacts on teams and projects. The video game development industry is known for its mismanagement practices, and therefore applying this knowledge would help improving game developers' productivity and well-being. In this paper, we map project management anti-patterns to anti-patterns reported by game developers in the gray literature. We read 440 postmortems problems, identified anti-pattern candidates, and related them with definitions from the software-engineering literature. We discovered that most anti-pattern candidates could be mapped to anti-patterns in the software-engineering literature, except for Feature Creep, Feature Cuts, Working on Multiple Projects, and Absent or Inadequate Tools. We discussed the impact of the unmapped candidates on the development process while also drawing a parallel between video games and traditional software development. Future works include validating the definitions of the candidates via survey with practitioners and also considering development anti-patterns.

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