Cover Your Assets Anti-Pattern : Protection Over Production

Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur · Mar 3, 2022 · 16m

Overkill is a theme among many anti-patterns. The cover your assets approach is one of those types where it just goes too far. There is nothing wrong with providing a solid paper trail and communication. However, we can make documentation the point and miss the true goal of a project.

Cover Your Assets Defined

This anti-pattern is the same as documentation for documentation's sake. We get lost in administrative red tape, but do not make it to analysis paralysis. The whole project becomes thinking about the architecture and documenting it. However, decisions do not get made. Instead, there is…