| Pattern | Reverse Engineer | Project | Cross-platform | Configurable |
| Secure / In-Secure | Out of the box | Open Source | Can't Replicate | Uptime |
| Regression Testing | Backwards Compatible | SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT BINGO (free square) | Technical Debt | Reuse / Reusability |
| Agile | Integration / Integrated | Blocked By Someone Else | Performance | Unit Test |
| Refactor | Lots Of Effort | Loosely Coupled | Enterprise | Network |
| Apache | Fault Tolerant | Prioritise | Bandwidth | Should Work |
| Readable | Pluggable Architecture | Sane | Pattern | vi |
| Component | Reverse Engineer | SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT BINGO (free square) | Merge Conflicts | Lots Of Effort |
| Performance | Non-Trivial | Flexible | Out source | Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) |
| Reuse / Reusability | Refactor | VPN | Architect | Think Outside the Box |