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Dare Obasanjo: Top 10 Signs Your Software Project is Doomed

1. Trying to do too much in the first version.
2. Taking a major dependency on unproven technology.
3. Competing with an existing internal project that is either a cash cow or has powerful backers.
4. The team is understaffed.
5. "Complex problems require complex solutions".
6. Schedule Chicken
7. Scope Creep
8. Second System Syndrome
9. No Entrance Strategy.
10. Tackling a problem you don't know how to solve.

Andres Taylor: Top 10 Things Ten Years of Professional Software Development Has Taught Me

1. Object orientation is much harder than you think.
2. The difficult part of software development is communication.
3. Learn to say no.
4. If everything is equally important, then nothing is important.
5. Don't over-think a problem.
6. Dive really deep into something, but don't get hung up.
7. Learn about the other parts of the software development machine.
8. Your colleagues are your best teachers.
9. It all comes down to working software.
10. Some people are assholes.

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