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Ask Slashdot: What Are Some 'Best Practices' IT Should Avoid At All Costs? (cio.com)
snydeq writes: From telling everyone they're your customer to establishing a cloud strategy, Bob Lewis outlines 12 "industry best practices" that are sure to sink your company's chances of IT success: "What makes IT organizations fail? Often, it's the adoption of what's described as 'industry best practices' by people who ought to know better but don't, probably because they've never had to do the job. From establishing internal customers to instituting charge-backs to insisting on ROI, a lot of this advice looks plausible when viewed from 50,000 feet or more. Scratch the surface, however, and you begin to find these surefire recipes for IT success are often formulas for failure." What "best practices" would you add?
If there's a best practice to avoid then avoiding it becomes a best practice, and then you should avoid avoiding it. Or something.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
The mandatory online security training we did the first day at GoDaddy actually recommended satisfying the mixed-case/symbols requirements by using an initial capital letter and an ending exclamation point.
Course, Go Daddy is also the company where they fired one of the five guys on my team, didn't replace him, and then the next week started having daily meetings to discuss how our productivity had gone down 20%. Math was not management's strong suit.
I spend a lot of money paying Internet trolls to trash-talk linux in public forums so that my competitors won't run it.
Steals Lunches from Associates?
As a Post-It shareholder, I resent this observation. We have campaigned long and hard for the 60 day password change philosophy, and share price is important to our pension funds.
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