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Why Best Practices Suck

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  1. www.rittmanmead.com [email protected] @rittmanmead www.facebook.com/rittmanmead Why Best Practices Suck
 
 Robin

    Moffatt Principal Consultant, Rittman Mead

  2. www.rittmanmead.com [email protected] @rittmanmead www.facebook.com/rittmanmead The Additional Problem

  3. www.rittmanmead.com [email protected] @rittmanmead www.facebook.com/rittmanmead

  4. www.rittmanmead.com [email protected] @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?

  5. www.rittmanmead.com [email protected] @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

  6. www.rittmanmead.com [email protected] @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’

  7. www.rittmanmead.com [email protected] @rittmanmead www.facebook.com/rittmanmead

  8. www.rittmanmead.com [email protected] @rittmanmead www.facebook.com/rittmanmead How Long? If you’re just guessing,

    you can’t honestly estimate the remaining time to solve the problem

  9. www.rittmanmead.com [email protected] @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

  10. www.rittmanmead.com [email protected] @rittmanmead www.facebook.com/rittmanmead If It Looks Like a Duck

    … Even obvious problems aren’t always obvious

  11. www.rittmanmead.com [email protected] @rittmanmead www.facebook.com/rittmanmead

  12. www.rittmanmead.com [email protected] @rittmanmead www.facebook.com/rittmanmead Knob Twiddler? Do You Want to

    be the Monkey or the Organ Grinder?

  13. www.rittmanmead.com [email protected] @rittmanmead www.facebook.com/rittmanmead The only “best practice” you should

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

  14. www.rittmanmead.com [email protected] @rittmanmead www.facebook.com/rittmanmead #EOF ✴ email: [email protected] ✴ web:

    http://ritt.md/rmoff ✴ twitter: @rmoff ✴ IRC: rmoff / #obihackers / freenode