Utpal Writes          On Project Management, Leadership, Technology and Self-Help

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1. Intentionally forgets some tasks.
2. Directly or indirectly engages in organizational politics.
3. Works for long hours just to show that she is working for long hours – effective hours are not more than 2 or 3 per day.
4. Always talks about the problems, disasters and how a task cannot be accomplished.
5. Thinks what she knows about the technology is the only correct way to implement it.
6. Lack of integrity. Doesn’t honor her words.
7. Not trustworthy.
8. When she thinks she won’t be able to meet the scheduled release, she’ll give you 1000 excuses vividly.
9. Flatters her boss – believes that this way she can be respected among others.
10. Takes initiatives but never accomplishes the task.
11. Reactive. Thinks win-lose.
12. Does not have good listening capabilities. Operates from her past beliefs only rather than the facts.
13. When client has asked her to do a specific task, she works on something else! And then rationalizes why she worked on something else.
14. Never begins with the end in mind. When an adverse situation comes, throws its responsibility on someone else.
15. Does not have good soft skills and does not believe she needs any.
16. Has zero business sense. Cannot think from the business perspectives.
17. Rude with colleagues. Often comes with the problem with fellow colleagues.
18. Does not have good family life.
19. When she works overnight, people think that she is committed – in fact it is because of something she overlooked in the early stages of the project.
20. When she is working as a full time dedicated developer for an offshore company, takes personal work from her boss and invest half of the day working on that.
21. Has a GREAT power to demotivate the team she is working with.
22. Loves photography (just kidding!) Thinks Negative.

Mentor, coach, guide or fire (if nothing works) such software developers but DO NOT allow them to be in  your team.