Retiring standards
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In this lesson
remove standards that no longer pay for themselves.
Planned topics
- Review each standard at least yearly: still needed, still followed, still cheap?
- Signs of decay: many exceptions, tooling now makes it automatic, original problem is gone.
- Retire visibly: announce, set a date, remove the checks and the documentation.
- A shrinking standards set builds trust in the rest.
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Demonstration
a yearly review table: standard, exceptions count, adoption percent, pain addressed, decision (keep / simplify / retire).
Check your understanding
What is a signal that a standard should be retired?
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Many exceptions, or the problem it addressed no longer exists.
Practice
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