Technical Leaders and their Anti-Patterns

By siliconindia   |   Tuesday, 07 February 2012, 22:05 IST   |    1 Comments
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3. The Space-Ranger- This CTO anti-pattern gets so caught up with things he thinks the company can do that he tends to “lose tethering” or “lose track” and “achieve escape velocity”. Being ex-employees of the company, they suggested Bill Joy, the co-founder of Sun Microsystems as a classic example of a space ranger.

 

 

 

4. The Process Queen- Having a process to perform an action is good, but too much of process could be deadly, warned Cantrill and Hoffman. ReadWriteWeb quoted an example of what a Process Queen would say as “Is there a ticket? We can't have this conversation without a ticket”.