Raheel KhokharTeam Lead| DatumSquare IT ServicesRawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan
What is difference between a "Good Practice" and a "Best Practice"? Like PMBOK is a "good practice", but not a "best practice". Saving Changes...
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Deepesh RammoorthyICT Project Manager ( PMP®AgilePM®Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®))| Australian Red Cross Blood ServiceTarneit, Vic, Australia
For me it's the same as ITIL vs PMBOK . ITIL experts would argue that it is the Best Way to do IT Service management . Perhaps it's much more prescriptive
PMBOK advocates would argue that it's a body of Knowledge built over decades of good practices in Project Management from some of the best project managers but they cannot guarantee that it's the best way to run your projects. Saving Changes...
PMBOK might not be a best practice, but a general practice can not be the best practice for all. Saving Changes...
Kevin ColemanSubject Matter Expert, Author, Speaker and Strategic Advisor| - InsightsPa, United States
A mentor once told me best practices is the term used when some is challenged as why the project or staff should do something and the individual saying it should be done is asked to explain why and all they can come up with is - - Its Best Practices Saving Changes...
Nasrullah MohammedPortfolio Manager| Advanced Electronics CompanyRiyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Whenever it is recommended that a practice should be followed, it is said to be a best practice. When this practice becomes a part of life, it becomes a good practice. So a good practice is always automatically followed by everyone concerned. We can say that a best practice when followed over a period of time becomes a good practice.
As per the ITIL definition, Organizations once they've attained Best Practice will move to Good Practice. Saving Changes...
Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
The definition of Good Practice is inside the PMBOK itself, page 2. The general accepted definition of Best Practice is "a method or technique that has consistently shown results superior to those achieved with other means, and that is used as a benchmark". Key into Best Practice definition is the benchmark utilization. Saving Changes...
Raheel KhokharTeam Lead| DatumSquare IT ServicesRawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan
Thank you Deepesh, Vincent, Kevin, Nasrullah and Sergio.
Like "Best" is superlative degree of "Good", can I say "good" practice when practiced over a period of time, and proven better than every other alternative and guarentees success, if becomes "Best Practice"?
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May 02, 2017 10:45 AM
Sergio Luis Conte
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Let me say that the PMI and the IIBA have published some articles I wrote as "Best Practices for Best Business Analysis". BUT about your point let me say: it does not matter. It does not matter if is a best, good or anything practices. What matters is the practice you will use will fit for your initiative after you analyze the impact it will create at the whole organization. For example, one of the articles is about the use of a selling method named "Solution Selling" or "SPIN Selling" as the method to drive all related to requirements and stakeholders. And you will not see that method mentioned into any BOK.
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Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
May 02, 2017 10:26 AM
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Thank you Deepesh, Vincent, Kevin, Nasrullah and Sergio.
Like "Best" is superlative degree of "Good", can I say "good" practice when practiced over a period of time, and proven better than every other alternative and guarentees success, if becomes "Best Practice"?
Let me say that the PMI and the IIBA have published some articles I wrote as "Best Practices for Best Business Analysis". BUT about your point let me say: it does not matter. It does not matter if is a best, good or anything practices. What matters is the practice you will use will fit for your initiative after you analyze the impact it will create at the whole organization. For example, one of the articles is about the use of a selling method named "Solution Selling" or "SPIN Selling" as the method to drive all related to requirements and stakeholders. And you will not see that method mentioned into any BOK. Saving Changes...
If these "good practice" and "best practice" are dealt with out of the books, both should be understood as subjective, tentative and relative degree of acceptance of using a certain practices or of applicable a certain practice in a specific domain of industry or for general use in any domains. I am not sure of what makes these two being definitely different and of what makes the differences that significantly matter in application of a certain practices to real projects . Saving Changes...
Phil DoyleSenior Project Manager| Orangebus (Capita)Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne And Wear, United Kingdom
I would suggest this question is considered in the context of the Cynefin framework. This defines complexity domains, the lowest level of which is “Simple” and is managed via “Best Practice” using a sense-categorise-respond approach. The next is “Complicated” which is a sense-analyse-respond approach - it’s not quite as simple as following a basic flow diagram. Saving Changes...
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