Stovepipe Enterprise

This smell is characterized by a lack of a software structure that inhibits change. The smell shows lack of coordination and planning across a set of systems.

Related smells: Stovepipe System

Reference

W. Brown, R. Malveau, H. McCormick, T. Mowbray, “AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis”. John Wiley & Sons, 1998.