You Might Be in a Broken Project If

12
Oct0

I think that some of the best Java Posse rants happens when they do a live show. The following is my transcription from their live show at JavaZone 2007.

Top reasons indicating you might be in a broken project…

It adds three months to add a checkbox on a web UI
Everything starts to look like it would be quicker to rewrite
Everyone on the project has architect on their business card
Conversations always start with ‘oh that, that is really simple…’ followed by a thirty minute discussion of what is required
You time your life around The Build
The GUI is written in AWT or HTML 3.2
The GUI is written in something you wrote yourself
The Project X is a homegrown web framework
Someone just added five more hours of meetings to your day because the release is late
The guy that is supposed to train you, throws a file full of notes, and runs away
The lines of XML outnumber the lines of Java 10 to 1
You ask about JUnit tests and you get blank stares from everyone