You ever wake up one day and wonder why you can't make it through a day without a server, compiler, IDE, web page, or unit test can't ever just _work_. Why your projects always seem to be lurching from crisis to crisis? Come to this talk to go over some of the most common dysfunctions seen today in technology. We'll go over resume driven development, the dreaded consultants took our CEO to dinner, to Gall's law and everything in between. You will learn how to recognize these patterns and have a fighting chance of maybe sleeping through an entire weekend without getting a something's broken call.