Partial remote communication: Some members are remote, some are in office. The remote workers are often left out of the loop, and often out of friendships, and communication is not done on tools where they can listen in on. This is usually less productive than fully remote.<p>Mushroom management: Managers keep the developers in the dark like mushrooms. Often consulting companies afraid of being undercut by their developers. It adds communication overhead and "telephone game" communication between the managers and developers, and very often devs don't understand why something is to be done a certain way and are less motivated or cut the corners.<p>2nd System syndrome: The first system someone designs is underengineered. The second one is often overengineered, which is worse than underengineering. Worst case is making such a person team lead. This isn't just engineering, but also management, sales, etc, as well.<p>Bikeshedding: If an objective seems simple enough, nobody can agree to it, because it's within the Dunning-Kruger zone of people who want input.<p>Duck decoy: Middle management feels like they have to give input and criticize to be useful. An engineer can set up a "duck" feature (search for Battle Chess) which is easy to criticize and easy to remove, to appease such managers.<p>Friendly fire: For some reason, not enough resources are allocated to a project. Often time/tight deadlines. Team A blames Team B for not fulfilling their role. Team B blames Team A later. Blaming often freezes progress as they have to make meetings to explain the situation and possible solutions and negotiate adjustments to the schedule/budget. This can lead to a deadlock. A common option is to bring in a consultant then blame the consultant. That way only two teams are frozen in place, while the third team makes progress unhindered. The consultant will also blame the in-house teams, but their role is to keep it minimum and buy more time.<p>Budgeting as needed: A budget increases and decreases according to its needs. This often results in departments requesting extra computers, resources, printer cartridges, etc to finish a budget so that their budget isn't reduced next year.