Every workplace has its challenges, but which are the biggest drag on programming productivity? To find out, InfoWorld conducted an informal survey of developers. These were the top 15 roadblocks to programming:
- Meetings
- Reply all emails
- Trying to measure productivity
- Prima donna developers
- Technical debt
- Nonprogrammer managers
- Programmer managers
- Brogrammers
- Selfish programmers
- Poor documentation
- Slavish devotion to documentation
- Distraction-rich environments
- Cultural fit
- Clinging to legacy technology
- Lust for the latest and greatest