Best practices only exist in domains that are somewhat mature.
- Best practices only exist in domains that are somewhat mature.[ahg]
- You need a diversity of successful things to compare to figure out the resilient common denominator that works in most situations.
- If you only have one example, you don't know which properties led to success.
- Maybe it's all of the little details.
- Maybe it was one big decision.
- Until you have multiple successes to compare and contrast, you can't tell which properties are more likely to be determinative.
- If it's novel, those don't exist to triangulate against yet!