What is one of the three anti-patterns to avoid when developing with Appian?

One of the key anti-patterns to avoid when developing with Appian is the reliance on custom task management. Custom task management often leads to increased complexity, maintenance challenges, and potential performance issues within an application. Instead of leveraging the robust, built-in task management features that Appian provides, creating custom solutions can result in a lack of consistency and interoperability with other parts of the Appian environment.

By using Appian's built-in task management capabilities, developers can take advantage of optimized workflows and ensure a seamless user experience. Built-in features facilitate easier updates, enhanced collaboration across teams, and better alignment with Appian's design principles, ultimately leading to more maintainable and scalable applications.

When other options are considered, excessive use of interfaces could bind the user experience too tightly to the application’s design, minimal application data usage could inhibit performance and insight into the application’s functionality, and preconfigured connectors, while helpful in many cases, are not inherently an anti-pattern. Thus, relying too heavily on custom task management stands out as a practice that could introduce significant drawbacks.