My recent experience in a project

மெய்வருத்தம் பாரார் பசிநோக்கார் கண்டுஞ்சார்
எவ்வெவர் தீமையு மேற்கொள்ளார் - செவ்வி
அருமையும் பாரா ரவமதிப்புங் கொள்ளார்
கருமமே கண்ணாயி னார்.

It may appear like this poem is not applicable for software developers, if some developer follows this poem in his life and work, he will be considered as an dump guy, not so smart etc, etc..

Always talk about others, compare others, criticize others, talk about yourself more and your accomplishment, read tweets, don't do your work in time, then you will be considered as a smart guy (developer)

But you may need to face the consequences later. So always follow the poem, follow the principle the outcome will be rewarding.

So called designers and architects i came across..

1. Say something stupid in the team meetings and backing it up by saying " just kidding.."
2. Reading tweeter during office hours and discuss those tweets with other team members in scrum room.
3. When they have a little work put on their headphones and concentrate on the work, if they doesn't have any work read tweets, facebook, rss and disturb others and invite other teammates for the discussion and if they doesn't join, tease them and say doesn't have team spirit.
4. Get all the completed artifacts and knowledge from developer who burns himself for more than 10 hrs everyday and send the final delivery mail to the business owners and other stakeholders as if they did everything.
5. Asking the team members to bring snacks every week, talk nice to them only on the day they bought the snacks.
6. Discuss various types of sweets, snacks and finding the Indian restaurants in google map for the weekend party during business hours.
7. Often go and meet Senior managers, Architects and update them as if they did everything and gave all the ideas to the developer.
8. If the developer gets angry, create a bad opinion about him with peers and senior managers.
9. Use office laptop to see movies online during weekends.
10. Get license and install all the costly software like RAD 7.5, Informatica Client, XMLSpy and never opened it during the sprint lifecycle.
11. Advice everyone and when it is unavoidable to write some code on java, use goto statements, continue statement and other C style code in java.
12. Never allow others to talk in the meetings.
13. Even if nobody asks brag about themselves their past achievements and todays leading customer websites are running because of their design ;-)
14. Use to have big friends circle to get them next project, forward their resume to the new client, and ask their friends to conduct the interview for them in case the management finds and kicks them out of their current project.