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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

This is an extremely smart technique in the context of a fucked-up process that doesn't work, for two reasons: - Sales gets to put another check on the feature comparison chart - If anyone asks "why are you building this" you can say "It's how Google does it" and who are they to argue with Google?

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Eventually, after enough product managers copy Google, the design pattern becomes a "best practice" and joins the canon of preferred methods that you can do unthinkingly, and then brag to your management for having done it. Don't measure results - it's a best practice so it is good by definition!

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Carl Forde 🇨🇦 @cforde.github.io · 04/04/2025

oh, I feel that. I used to work for a company that required "best practices" for its team team. Best practices for whom?? What's best for those companies over there might not be appropriate for our company. Doesn't matter. Those are the metrics.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

The great thing about best practices is that you don't need to actually change what you do, as long as you adopt the right signs. "Agile development" is thus defined as: 1: two-week sprints 2: Jira 3: story points based on the fibonacci sequence As long as you are doing these, you are Agile.

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Paul "Code//Grump" Turner @code-grump.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I'd like to interject here with a brief tangent: "best practice" is one of those phrases that should set off alarms. Who says it's best? When and why is it best? It's dogmatic and should immediately be scrutinised until it's revealed to be useful or expunged.

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