http://sanjaal.com/taggedmails... 1. Management has renamed its Waterfall process to Agile Waterfall 2. You start hiring consultants so they can take the blame 3. The Continuous Integration server has returned the error message “F**k it, I give up” 4. You have implemented your own Ruby framework that uses XML configuration files 5. Your eldest team member references Martin Fowler as a ’snot-nosed punk’ 6. Your source code control system is a series of folders on a shared drive 7. Allocated QA time is for Q and A why your crap is broken 8. All of your requirements are written on a used cocktail napkin 9. You start considering a new job so you don’t have to maintain the application you are building 10. The lead web developer thinks the X in XHTML means ‘extreme’ 11. Ever iteration meeting starts with “Do you want the good news or the bad news…” 12. Your team still gives a crap about its CMM Level 13. Progress is now measured by the number of fixed bugs and not completed features 14. Continuous Integration is getting new employees to read the employee handbook 15. You are friends with the janitor 16. The SCRUM master doesn’t really care what you did yesterday or what you will do today 17. Every milestone ends in a dead sprint 18. Your best developer only has his A+ Certification 19. You do not understand the acronyms DRY, YAGNI, or KISS; but you do understand WTF, PHB, and FUBAR 20. Your manager could be replaced by an email redirection batch file 21. The only certification your software process has is ISO 9001/2000 22. Your manager thinks ‘Metrics’ is a type of protein drink 23. Every bug is prioritized as Critical 24. Every feature is prioritized as Trivial 25. Project estimates magically match the budget 26. Developers use the excuse of ’self documenting code’ for no comments 27. Your favorite software pattern is God Object 28. You still believe compiling is a form of testing 29. Developers still use Notepad as an IDE 30. Your manager wastes 7 hours a week asking for progress reports (true story) 31. You do not have your own machine and you are not doing pair programming 32. Team Rule - No meetings until 10 AM since we were all here until 2 AM 33. Your team believes ORM is a ‘fad’ 34. Your team believes the transition from VB6 to VB.NET will be ’seamless’ 35. Your manager thinks MS Project is the best management tool the market offers 36. Your spouse only gets to see you on a webcam 37. None of your unit tests have asserts in them 38. FrontPage is your web page editor of choice 39. You get into flame wars if { should be on new line, but you are impartial to patterns such as MVC 40. The company motto is ‘Do more with less’ 41. The phrase ‘It works on my machine’ is heard more than once a day 42. The last conference your .NET team attended was Apple WWDC 2000 43. Your manager insists that you track all activity but never uses the information to make decisions 44. All debugging occurs on the live server 45. Your manager does not know how to check email 46. Your manager thinks being SOX compliant means not working on baseball nights 47. The company hires Senetor Ted Stevens to give your project kick-off inspiration speech 48. The last book you read - Visual InterDev 6 Bible 49. The overall budget is mistaken for your weekly Mountain Dew bill 50. Your manager spends his lunch hour crying in his car (another true story) 51. Your lead web developer defines AJAX as a cleaning product 52. Your boss expects you to spend the next 2 days creating a purchase request for a $50 component 53. The sales team decreased your estimates because they believe you can work faster 54. Requirement - Rank #1 on Google 55. Everyday you work until Midnight, everyday your boss leaves at 4:30 56. Your manager loves to say “Why do the developers care? They get paid by the hour.” 57. The night shift at Starbucks knows you by name 58. Management can not understand why anyone needs more than a single monitor 59. Your development team only uses source control as a power failure backup system 60. Developers are not responsible for any testing 61. The team does not use SVN because they believe the merge algorithms are black voodoo magic 62. Your white boards are mostly white (VersionOne) 63. The client continually mistakes your burn-down chart for a burn-up chart 64. The project code name is renamed to ‘The Death March’ 65. Now it physically pains you to say the word - Yes 66. Your teammates don’t refactor, they refuctor 67. To reward you for all of your overtime your boss purchases a new coffee maker 68. Your project budget is entered in the company ledger as ‘Corporate Overhead’ 69. You secretly outsource pieces of the project so you can blog at work 70. A Change Control Board is created and your product isn’t even its first alpha version 71. Daily you consider breaking your fingers for the short term disability check 72. The deadline has been renamed a ‘milestone’…just like the last ‘milestone’ 73. Your project managers ‘open door’ policy only applies between 5:01 PM - 7:59 AM 74. Your boss argues “Why buy it when we can built it!” 75. You bring beer to the office during your 2nd shift 76. The project manager is spotted consulting a Ouija board 77. You give misinformation to your teammates so you look better on your personal review 78. All code reviews are scheduled a week before product launch 79. Budget for testing exists as “if we have time” 80. The client will only talk about the requirements after they receive a fixed estimation 81. The boss does not find the humor in Dilbert 82. You start noticing your boss’s poker tells during planning poker 83. You start wondering if working 2 shifts at Pizza Hut is a better career alternative 84. All performance issues are resolved by getting larger machines 85. The project has been demoted to being released as a permanent ‘Beta’ version 86. Your car is towed from the office parking lot as it was thought to be abandoned 87. The project manager likes to doodle during requirements gathering meetings 88. You are using MOSS 2007 89. Your SCRUM team consists of 1 90. Your timesheet looks like a Powerball ticket 91. The web developer thinks being 508 means looking good in her Levi Red Tabs 92. You think you need Multiple Personality Disorder medication because you are Mort, Elvis, and Einstein 93. Your manager substitutes professional consultant advice for a Magic 8 Ball 94. You know exactly how many compile warnings cause an ‘Out of Memory’ exception in your IDE 95. I have used IDE twice in this list and you still don’t know what it stands for 96. You have cut and pasted code from The Daily WTF 97. Broken unit tests are deleted because they are obviously out of date 98. You are sent to a conference to learn, but you skip sessions to go hunting for swag 99. QA has nicknamed you Chief Off-By-One 100. You have been 90% complete 90% of the time 101. “Oh, oh, and I almost forgot. Ahh, I’m also gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday, too… thanks”