Overview
● The notion of best practices is debatable: who decides what is "best" and on what basis?
§ One approach is to convene a body of industry experts or
researchers to analyze projects from many different organizations
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These experts look for
practices whose effective performance is associated with successful projects
and which are performed poorly or not at all on failed projects.
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The experts reach consensus
on the activities that consistently yield superior results.
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Such activities are called best
practices.
§ They represent highly effective ways for software professionals
to increase the chance of success on certain kinds of projects and in certain
situations.
