A recipe for frustrating developers:

🚫 Require a slow VPN or slow remote virtual machine to work.

🚫 Forbid changing most things. We must accept painful, slow, difficult, outdated processes.

🚫 Provide unclear or constantly changing requirements.

🚫 Don’t trust their judgment.

🚫 Create a highly political environment.

🚫 Hire incompetent people, freeloaders, and jerks. Then, ignore the people issues that occur.

🚫 Micromanage. Try to dictate precisely how people do their job. Require management approvals for every release.

🚫 Be cheap. Use old, slow hardware and software. Be unwilling to spend money to save time.

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