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Having a software architect assigned to the team who is not smart enough for the task but is trusted by management for all his design decisions because he and the management come from the same prestegious research institute. The guy was called in to redesign a central repository component but did not even take care to investigate the existing implementation and came up with a design that was clearly inferrior and had less functionality. Still he was trusted for his designs over and over again.