Comments on: There are no a priori best practices http://leansoftwareengineering.com/2008/02/02/there-are-no-a-priori-best-practices/ Essays on the Continuous Delivery of High Quality Information Systems Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:48:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Jay Packlick http://leansoftwareengineering.com/2008/02/02/there-are-no-a-priori-best-practices/#comment-2268 Jay Packlick Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:35:59 +0000 http://leansoftwareengineering.com/2008/02/02/there-are-no-a-priori-best-practices/#comment-2268 Corey, The term I try to promote is 'better practices' Our processes should be in a constant state of improvement thus, there's no such thing as 'best' - which implies the dead-end arrival at a process destination. J. Corey,
The term I try to promote is ‘better practices’ Our processes should be in a constant state of improvement thus, there’s no such thing as ‘best’ - which implies the dead-end arrival at a process destination.
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]]> By: Corporate Coder http://leansoftwareengineering.com/2008/02/02/there-are-no-a-priori-best-practices/#comment-1929 Corporate Coder Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:55:55 +0000 http://leansoftwareengineering.com/2008/02/02/there-are-no-a-priori-best-practices/#comment-1929 <strong>Lean Thinking in Software Engineering...</strong> Interesting post over on the Lean Software Engineering blog, " There are no a priori best practices... Lean Thinking in Software Engineering…

Interesting post over on the Lean Software Engineering blog, " There are no a priori best practices…

]]> By: Eric Landes http://leansoftwareengineering.com/2008/02/02/there-are-no-a-priori-best-practices/#comment-1928 Eric Landes Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:20:00 +0000 http://leansoftwareengineering.com/2008/02/02/there-are-no-a-priori-best-practices/#comment-1928 Corey, A great post. To be honest, I am hoping to impart this attitude to our team here. I believe that there are current best practices. But in my career, I've never been at the best, and stopped. Maybe that's just my issue. But I do not believe we have scratched the surface in delivering software with high quality, quickly. I'd love to see any examples you have in how you've got that attitude across to your teams. Corey, A great post. To be honest, I am hoping to impart this attitude to our team here. I believe that there are current best practices. But in my career, I’ve never been at the best, and stopped. Maybe that’s just my issue. But I do not believe we have scratched the surface in delivering software with high quality, quickly.

I’d love to see any examples you have in how you’ve got that attitude across to your teams.

]]> By: Corey Ladas http://leansoftwareengineering.com/2008/02/02/there-are-no-a-priori-best-practices/#comment-1899 Corey Ladas Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:29:35 +0000 http://leansoftwareengineering.com/2008/02/02/there-are-no-a-priori-best-practices/#comment-1899 John, That is a good point. I don't think many aspire to worse practices, but we should be mindful that worse is a possible outcome of change. Perhaps that speaks to the value of having a useful set of metrics. I've seen a good deal of complacency: "the way I do it is the best way, so why change?" And recently, this seems to be an especially common malady. John,

That is a good point. I don’t think many aspire to worse practices, but we should be mindful that worse is a possible outcome of change. Perhaps that speaks to the value of having a useful set of metrics.

I’ve seen a good deal of complacency: “the way I do it is the best way, so why change?” And recently, this seems to be an especially common malady.

]]> By: John Hunter http://leansoftwareengineering.com/2008/02/02/there-are-no-a-priori-best-practices/#comment-1895 John Hunter Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:29:28 +0000 http://leansoftwareengineering.com/2008/02/02/there-are-no-a-priori-best-practices/#comment-1895 Actually I think this forgets the practices that are worse than those you are using now. Those that don't use a process improvement tool (like PDSA) often adopt a new practice before testing to determine if it really makes things better first. Changes that are not improvement outnumber those that are improvement - I believe. Actually I think this forgets the practices that are worse than those you are using now. Those that don’t use a process improvement tool (like PDSA) often adopt a new practice before testing to determine if it really makes things better first. Changes that are not improvement outnumber those that are improvement - I believe.

]]> By: There are no a priori best practices » Blog Archive http://leansoftwareengineering.com/2008/02/02/there-are-no-a-priori-best-practices/#comment-1849 There are no a priori best practices » Blog Archive Sun, 03 Feb 2008 02:34:53 +0000 http://leansoftwareengineering.com/2008/02/02/there-are-no-a-priori-best-practices/#comment-1849 [...] Corey Ladas: There are no a priori best practices. There are only the practices you are using now. And practices that are better than the ones you are using now. [...] [...] Corey Ladas: There are no a priori best practices. There are only the practices you are using now. And practices that are better than the ones you are using now. [...]

]]> By: A Test Guy » Blog Archive » 2 process thoughts http://leansoftwareengineering.com/2008/02/02/there-are-no-a-priori-best-practices/#comment-1845 A Test Guy » Blog Archive » 2 process thoughts Sun, 03 Feb 2008 01:25:02 +0000 http://leansoftwareengineering.com/2008/02/02/there-are-no-a-priori-best-practices/#comment-1845 [...] Corey Ladas posted: [...] [...] Corey Ladas posted: [...]

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