AntiPatterns Ground RulesUse AntiPatterns to quickly move through negative issues and onto positive solutions

• AntiPatterns are normal, status-quo solutions, like “dysfunctional families”

  Some AntiPatterns must be tolerated: “Accept those things you cannot change; have the courage to change those things you can, and the wisdom to know the difference” - Serenity Prayer
  

• Avoid the Urinary Olympics

  • Don’t use AntiPatterns to exacerbate negativity

• Avoid the Golden Hammer = Obsessive use of 1 pattern

  There are 191 fundamental software patterns
  
  ( 23 Gamma Patterns + 17 Buschmann Patterns + 72 Analysis Patterns + 38 CORBA Design Patterns + 42 AntiPatterns )

• Be sophisticated, use a range of solutions

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