RE: [External] : Re: What's that line again about 'best practices'?

From: Jeff Smith <jeff.d.smith_at_oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2022 12:15:52 +0000
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Our ‘Best Practices’ are more like

‘What we think you should be doing’

But we know what folks are googling is ‘Best Practices’

I also hate this term, but it’s what the industry has landed on.

From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org <oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org> On Behalf Of Chris Taylor Sent: Friday, October 28, 2022 8:11 AM
To: mwf_at_rsiz.com
Cc: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: [External] : Re: What's that line again about 'best practices'?

Thank you Mark!

On Thu, Oct 27, 2022, 4:28 PM Mark W. Farnham <mwf_at_rsiz.com<mailto:mwf_at_rsiz.com>> wrote: 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> [mailto: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 To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org<mailto:oracle-l_at_freelists.org> Subject: OT: What's that line again about 'best practices'?

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

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