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I found the article meaningless. He says best practices are what everyone is doing, therefore the embodiment of mediocrity. I find "best practices" to be a use
by russell 18y ago
I found the article meaningless. He says best practices are what everyone is doing, therefore the embodiment of mediocrity.
I find "best practices" to be a useful checklist, especially in an area new to me. If someone says it's a best practice, I take a look. Ultimately I may decide their advice is of a little value.
- Confusion 18y agoThe fourth commenter at the blog makes an excellent point: people call it 'best practices', but they are actually 'common practices'. The reason something is a common practice, is because it has been shown to work or, lacking measurements to proove that something works, because it makes sense and 'just works'. Moreover, it's just a non-sequitur to conclude from 'mediocre company X does Y' that 'doing Y makes a company mediocre'. What makes a company mediocre is in the things they cannot single out in clear statements of the form 'we should change practice Z, as it is not good.
- narag 18y agoAlso it could be called "best goals" instead. I've seen a lot of companies that lie about what they really do, specially those certified with ISO and family.