[iofj]

What's also missing is how to actually make extensible designs. I have seen very, very few designs that were able to accommodate unforeseen changes, and none that resulted from good coding practices.

Most often I've observed that the more process and organization surrounds a development effort, the more likely that effort will outright fail (sometimes by never getting completed, more often by never actually fulfilling the function that was designed for, then abandoned. The difference is that the second kind is very much declared complete).

Recently a thorough focus on code hygiene (unit tests taken to a ridiculous levels, for instance) is one more warning sign that it's time to find something else to do. The biggest warning signs are project teams way bigger than they need to be, but ... Code hygiene nazis merely join the documentation madness of a few years back, PMs should control everything because Steve Jobs was a successful asshole, we need 5 design docs before even knowing what the problem is, ...