The short list based on excellent Thomas Sundberg presentation.

Divide the team into separate divisions - analysis, architecture, development, operations, test, etc.

Make the communication as hard as possible, different locations, different managers, different cost centres etc.

Assign developer to multiple projects managed by different people

Developers will be able to set priorities by themselves.

Context switching is cheap.

Everything should be written

You can always use written document as a evidence, even if it isn’t valid anymore.

Don’t allow to communicate development team with customers / end user

Developers are only for writing code based on given specifications.

Separate Devs and Ops

Devs should not be allowed into the production system, they can break something.

Ops don’t have to know anything about systems they care.

Improvement

No courses, no books, no conferences and learn only on personal time.

If you train them, they leave.

Measuring

Number of fixes per day.

Less than 100% test code coverage is a failure.

100% Javadoc over descriptive naming, etc.

Resources

Resources can be easily replaced, it doesn’t matter that valuable employees have left.

We easily find next resource.

Meetings

Schedule lots of them, demand everyone to be present, cancel them late or don’t show up or be unprepared.

Always prepare meeting minutes.

Planning

The most experienced person does it better than whole team.

Don’t allow self-organization, only command and control!

Demotivation

Don’t invest in tools, no large screens.

The fastest laptops for managers (powerpoint slides are very heavy).

Working offsite

Make it extremely difficult to work from home.

Deployments

Avoid it, that’s risky.

Always manual, no more than twice a year.

Different scenarios and teams for DEV, UAT and PROD.

Failed builds

Who cares, it works on production.

Check-in new changes if the build is red.

Company policies

Single tool/library/framework/platform for all.

Architecture

Only “ivory tower” architects, at least 20.

Testing

Load and performance tests on the end.

Only manual functional tests.

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