RE: What's that line again about 'best practices'?
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2022 17:21:50 -0400
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James Morle suggested something along the lines that they should be renamed Usual Practices (or something like that). I’ve called them Standard Minimum Starting Points and I pointed out that the only best practice I know of is to not allow things to be called best practices. Calling something a “best practice” tends to stifle attempts to do better.
IF you can get something called a best practice into your service delivery standards and you implement that practice, you have a legal defense whether or not the users can do anything or not.
Nothing can be proven to be a best practice. Things called best practice are sometimes really just good enough to be acceptable.
You’ve probably caught the drift I believe “best practice” is a harmful term. Some things called “best practices” are really quite good initial starting points or usual practices that are just fine unless you need something better.
From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Chris Taylor
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2022 1:59 PM
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Mark or someone has an idiom I want to save this time....
Something about best practices being written by people who don't have to support them or something .....
Chris
Subject: OT: What's that line again about 'best practices'?
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