Best good and bad practices

Why

Incorporating what has proven to work somewhere else forms the basis of any high-quality project.

How

Organise activities aimed at sharing experiences. Depending on your topic, many best, good and bad practices may be available.

Practice

Good practices tend to be repeated internally, but few companies have processes to identify and incorporate best practices described by others.

Ingredients

• A willingness to investigate what others have done.
• A sense of scope: which reported practices are important to you, and which are not?
• A critical sense of success factors.
• The ability to overcome the ‘not invented here’ syndrome.

Phases

• Problem definition
• Analysis

Trade-offs

Read more about the trade-offs: Inspiration or Data / Expertise or Fit / Overview or Certainty.