We recently discussed patterns in software design in a mentoring session.  The idea of anti-patterns was brought up.  However, we skipped addressing them at the time.  What not to do is an excellent area to consider though so let’s take a look at a definition and then some typical software anti-patterns. Anti-Patterns Defined First, it is important to note that anti-patterns are not solely a software concern.  There are famous anti-patterns that arose in non-technical situations.  For example, there is the cart before the horse anti-pattern.  Some other common ones are micromanagement, groupthink, and the peter principle.  These may not have been called anti-patterns before software patterns were defined, but they pre-existed the term. Common Software Anti-patterns Let’s look closer... Read more