[Sigia-l] Happy Independence Day...from "Best Practices"

[Listera]

kjnarey:

> Which part of the above statement (which you've slightly removed from it's
> context I feel) is of porcine character?

There's nothing porcine about your statement. It's just that with all its
caveats it describes an idyllic setting whose distance from day-to-day
commercial reality can be filled by a large-scale pig farm. :-)

In our Dilbertian world, "best practices" has come to represent what one
does when one doesn't have time to think through a problem in context.

Because I've been a consultant for a long time, I get to see the actual
application of the notion in many different settings. The most hilarious one
is when a project is in a serious mess (acute surgery is what I do) and they
tell *me* what "best practices" *I* must follow. :-)
 
> Are you disputing that you/we can learn from previous successes and/or
> mistakes...

Check my sig below which I have often used here in the past. That may just
include other peoples' "best practices." :-)

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Ziya

You must learn from the mistakes of others.
You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.