Questioning "Best Practices" for Software Development: Practices are Contextual, Never Best (2011)

Lobsters·2 points·kirch·over 7 years ago·ambysoft.com

"Best practices" is a great marketing term, but in reality every practice works well in some situations and poorly in others.

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