Ring the alarm, how to detect enterprisey architects...

Have you ever heard any of these phrases? If so, you are surrounded by enterprisey architects...

We outsource testing but didn't provide them with any quality documentation. I wonder why quality is in the toilet?

We don't have time to write automated tests. We have plenty of time to run all hands on deck tests and integration exercise at the 11th hour though.

What do you mean? There's 'another' way to do this?

Let's skip evaluating the software and go with the Gartner recommendation

We don't want too many superstars here. You'll all kill each other

Let's have a meeting to discuss our meeting schedule

The problem is, we can see by this that you've obviously started coding without submitting a design document first...