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Design patterns used without excess, are considered a good thing. Anti-patterns on the other hand are common practices that lead to bad outcomes.
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Scrum Anti-Patterns: Micromanagement
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Scrum Anti-Patterns: The Hardening Sprint
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In software development work, a design pattern is a description of a solution to a recurring problem. It outlines the elements necessary to solve the problem, including context and the consequences of certain actions, without prescribing a specific way to solve it, leaving readers with the agency to write code as they see fit.
Patterns, when applied well and not overused, provide a guide to solving repetitive problems rapidly. A good pattern provides enough background information to help you solve the problem, without asserting that it is the best or only solution in all instances.
Scrum, Agile, Kanban, and other frameworks and mindsets like them are sets of behavioural design patterns. In Scrum, the Scrum PLOP (Pattern Language of Programs) documents known patterns of effective behaviour.
Unfortunately, we also regularly observe recurring design patterns that lead to ineffective behaviour. These are called Anti-Patterns.
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