Unsuccessful Product

About 30 to 45% of new products fail to deliver any meaningful financial return. There are many reasons why this happens.

Finger-Pointing And Blaming

Finger-Pointing and Blaming is the act of blaming someone for a problem instead of trying to fix or take accountability. This results in a toxic work culture where nobody feels safe and there's no trust.

Unhappy Clients

How to deal with unhappy clients? First, stay calm. No matter how good you are at what you do, sooner or later you'll come across an unhappy client. Navigate to the article to read more.

Low Bus Factor

Low bus factor is a risk for team work when one or more important team members get stuck (from various reasons) and cannot work.

Sunk Cost

Sunk costs are the expenses spent in the process and are not concluded as successful. These can be of financial, time, or one's attachment nature and are thus resources which costs won’t return in any way.

Unnecessary features

Unnecessary features, also known as feature creep, are needed as long as you plan on having a successful product that is easy to use and helps people get done what they need to get done.

Increased Cost

It is not an easy task to measure the cost of software development. Two projects are never the same, it can be a small application or a complex system. It is important to try to reduce the possible increase in cost.

Poor Code Quality

Poor code quality mainly describes buggy code or code with high coupling and low cohesion that is difficult to maintain. Poor code quality can also lead to frequent code repetition or suspiciously slow implementation.

Bad Product-Market Fit

Bad product-market fit means that the market does not want your product. Products the market does not want waste not only money but also the team members' time.

Toxic Team Culture

Dangerous toxic team culture spreads easily. It is often started by a combination of bad management and disinvolved employees. It is crucial to deal with it as soon as possible.

Disconnect Between Business and IT

Modern companies sometimes forget to focus more on the long term IT innovations. They make critical financial decisions without the correct IT-business insight.

Not My Problem Mentality

“Not My Problem” mentality is a dangerous phenomenon that can jeopardize your project. Collaboration is a result of a healthy team environment and a good leadership.

Meaningless Work

Meaningless work can be one of these two cases: 1. A feeling that the work has no meaning, the team members do not have a sense of purpose. 2. A work on a product that is not valuable.

Demotivated Team

Team motivation is important to maintain creativity. Employee dissatisfaction can be caused by many factors. The team leader’s job is to motivate the team and therefore create a productive climate.