Good work needs to look good in order to be seen. And in enterprise, it needs to be able to be compared in order to be fair and afford some level of control from top down.
Standards solve those problems at the cost of some overhead and waste, due to being what they are: a fairly generic reification of best practice (at best).
Even though some overhead is just inherently part of the game, the efficacy of standards (and metrics) does vary. Not all have equal merit. And it does sound like some of the Google standards went off the rails a bit.
Standards solve those problems at the cost of some overhead and waste, due to being what they are: a fairly generic reification of best practice (at best).
Even though some overhead is just inherently part of the game, the efficacy of standards (and metrics) does vary. Not all have equal merit. And it does sound like some of the Google standards went off the rails a bit.