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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