Mushroom Management

This anti-pattern is also known as keeping the developers blind from interacting with customers. Hence, the developers always develop solution that is far from being accurate to the actual expectation.

Consequences

• Product is far from customers' expectations.

Symptoms

• When developers and management are completely operating in isolation.
• When the products are consistently failing to meet customers' expectation.

Causes

• Mis-management between developers, and front-facing management team.

Fixing Recipes

1. Restructure management to consider the risks.
2. Use prototyping approach to let customers test them out.