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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

I've yelled about Best Practices before and will continue to do so now The thing about a Practice is that it's a tool - it helps you do a thing. It will be better at achieving some goals and worse at achieving others, so you need to pick your goal FIRST and only then pick the Practices to reach it.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

A practice may be Best to reach one goal over another, or in one context over another. What the legion of Thought Thinkers in tech proclaims when they nominate a Best Practice is "these goals are the goals you should have, these contexts are the contexts you should create."

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

If you pick up bundles of Best Practices like 36-packs of canned tuna at Costco, you don't get the opportunity to set your own goals. The system you just adopted will incentivize its own goals; it will make it easier to do the things the system was designed for, so those things will get done.

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Karen McGrane @karenmcgrane.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

I really love this talk from @eaton.fyi called "The Doctrine Gap" because I think it clearly articulates what's missing when we talk about strategy or tactics or best practices or goals or any of the other words we use to describe how a team should operate. eaton.fyi/talks/the-do...

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The Doctrine Gap

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