The document discusses common pitfalls or "sins" of workflow implementation, including relying on zero-code suites, building a homegrown workflow engine, using no engine, the wrong engine, improper granularity, creating a monolithic BPM system, overengineering workflows, and violating microservice boundaries. It advocates using a state machine-based approach to address challenges like handling time/timeouts, retries, distributed transactions, and message correlation in a developer-friendly way that is composable for both BizDev and Ops teams.