One antipattern I've seen at a few companies is analysis paralysis, where there are endless meetings and strategy sessions to discuss a solution to a problem, b

One antipattern I've seen at a few companies is analysis paralysis, where there are endless meetings and strategy sessions to discuss a solution to a problem, but there is never an actual decision made. One company I worked for had a series of meetings with 5 or 6 people to discuss the solution to a problem and still couldn't decide on a solution (copying themes/templates between multiple sites. In the end I purchased a $60 plug-in that solved the issue. This same company paid a contractor $20k to build a custom app to turn a shared inbox into a ticketing system. This feature and more is available as a SaaS product for $20 from multiple vendors. Another is gold plating, where more requirements get added on even after the initial requirements have been met. A few years ago I worked at a startup that made a dashboard for small businesses to manage their online business listings (Yelp, Facebook, Google, etc). They could see all reviews across sites, reply, update info, etc. So product comes up with a new feature to create offers/coupons and post them on sites. We implement all the requirements for an MVP which was creating and posting immediately. Then on the eve of releasing it they add a new requirement to schedule posts (the engineers all objected but were overruled). That led to complexity with timezones that added an additional 2 months of development and bug fixes. In the end, analytics showed that only 2% of users scheduled posts, the other 98% sent immediately.