I think best practise is horseshit. How often have you watched someone hide behind this label? Usually they are a little boring, a little administrative – or wildly strategic and not at all useful. Best practice is a kind of way of appealing to a vague external power in the hope that the people you are trying to convert will accept your view point without you actually having to justify it.
Some questions for the best practice people -
- Who says?
- Can’t you think for yourself?
- Do you have no evidence of your own?
- Why are you trying to bullshit people – what are you hiding here?
For me someone who says something is best practice is not to be trusted. Hence software salespeople tend to use this a lot as do consultancies. So the phrase does have a use it says – watch out, here’s a shyster!
