Dysfunction Symptoms

Start from what you observe. Find the anti-patterns causing it.

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Not sure which anti-pattern is hurting your team? Start here. Choose the path that fits how you want to explore.

Find your symptom

Answer a few questions to narrow down which symptoms match your situation.

Jump directly to the area where you are experiencing problems.

Test Suite Problems - Flaky tests, slow suites, high coverage that misses defects, environment-dependent failures
Deployment and Release Problems - Fear of deploying, infrequent releases, coordinated deployments, merge freezes, hardening sprints
Integration and Feedback Problems - Too much WIP, long cycle times, review bottlenecks, painful merges, slow feedback loops
Production Visibility and Team Health - Customers finding bugs first, slow incident detection, environment drift, team burnout

Each role sees different symptoms first. Find the ones most relevant to your daily work.

For Developers - Symptoms you hit while writing, testing, and shipping code - from flaky tests to painful merges
For Managers - Symptoms that show up as unpredictable delivery, quality gaps, and team health problems

Symptoms and anti-patterns share common themes. Browse by tag to see connections across categories.

Symptoms related to test reliability, coverage effectiveness, speed, and environment consistency.

Symptoms related to deployment frequency, release risk, coordination overhead, and environment parity.

Symptoms related to work-in-progress, integration pain, review bottlenecks, and feedback speed.

Symptoms related to production observability, incident detection, environment parity, and team sustainability.

Answer a few questions to narrow down which dysfunction symptoms match your situation.

Dysfunction symptoms grouped by the friction developers and tech leads experience - from daily coding pain to team-level delivery patterns.

Dysfunction symptoms grouped by business impact - unpredictable delivery, quality, and team health.