Why Best Practices Suck

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   www.rittmanmead.com inquiries@rittmanmead.com @rittmanmead www.facebook.com/rittmanmead Why Best Practices Suck
 
 Robin

   Moffatt Principal Consultant, Rittman Mead
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   www.rittmanmead.com inquiries@rittmanmead.com @rittmanmead www.facebook.com/rittmanmead The Additional Problem

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   www.rittmanmead.com inquiries@rittmanmead.com @rittmanmead www.facebook.com/rittmanmead When taken from a 
 position

   of knowledge and understanding 
 best practices can be useful to 
 codify existing knowledge Good Best Practices?
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   www.rittmanmead.com inquiries@rittmanmead.com @rittmanmead www.facebook.com/rittmanmead Bad Best Practices! •Silver Bullets •“Laundry

   Lists” of settings to change •Random Jiggling •Absolutes without context […] “I will jiggle things randomly until they unbreak” is not acceptable. — Linus Torvalds, April 2011
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   www.rittmanmead.com inquiries@rittmanmead.com @rittmanmead www.facebook.com/rittmanmead Guesswork Is Risky If you don’t

   know why what you did worked, then you don’t know that you’ve not caused ‘collateral damage’
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   www.rittmanmead.com inquiries@rittmanmead.com @rittmanmead www.facebook.com/rittmanmead How Long? If you’re just guessing,

   you can’t honestly estimate the remaining time to solve the problem
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   www.rittmanmead.com inquiries@rittmanmead.com @rittmanmead www.facebook.com/rittmanmead Déjà vu? If you don’t know

   what the problem was, you’re doomed to repeat the same mistake again in the future
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    www.rittmanmead.com inquiries@rittmanmead.com @rittmanmead www.facebook.com/rittmanmead If It Looks Like a Duck

    … Even obvious problems aren’t always obvious
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    www.rittmanmead.com inquiries@rittmanmead.com @rittmanmead www.facebook.com/rittmanmead Knob Twiddler? Do You Want to

    be the Monkey or the Organ Grinder?
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    www.rittmanmead.com inquiries@rittmanmead.com @rittmanmead www.facebook.com/rittmanmead The only “best practice” you should

    be using all the time is “Use Your Brain”. — Steven Robbins / Tom Kyte
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