Best practices are rarely the best — they're mostly just cargo cult common practices.
And as more people adopt them, the more mediocre they become.
The best is usually what most people aren't willing to do.
Jason Friedx.comBest practices are rarely the best — they're mostly just cargo cult common practices. And as more people adopt them, the more mediocre they become. The best is usually what most people aren't willing to do.
Mandating specific practices on people and teams is an antipattern. As Martin Fowler, Chief Scientist of ThoughtWorks and Agile Manifesto signatory, put it: Imposing a process on a team is completely opposed to the principles of agile, and has been since its inception. A team should choose its own process—one that suits the people and context in wh
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Unless you’ve actually done the work, you’re in no position to encode it as a best practice.