Pro/Con list everything. Don't read something as a best practice and take it as gospel. If best practices were really best practices, there wouldn't always be n

Pro/Con list everything. Don't read something as a best practice and take it as gospel. If best practices were really best practices, there wouldn't always be new best practices. When you pro/con it, you understand why. It's not that everyone is full of beans, but what works for their environment doesn't necessarily work for yours. The best shoe size is 10 wide. I know, I've been wearing them for over 20 years. Also test your assumptions. It's super simple to determine if doing it this way is faster/slower better/worse than doing it that way. Write a short script / console app prototype and put timers on it. It's much faster than arguing endlessly with someone over it. Collect some metrics.