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.
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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
