Industry standards and you

How many of you have quoted or heard others giving you the so-called “industry standards”?

Is it not strange that the quoted “industry standard”, always seems to be in absolute practice outside your specific organization! You somehow always end up in that one organization that does not know to follow industry standards!

Let’s cut through the fluff: There is something that you and your group are not able to make work and you need an out; and unwritten industry standards that no body can truly substantiate are you easiest defense and attack mechanism to continue to stand your ground.

There is one industry standard and one industry standard alone that you need to know. And that is, if it can be done well, someone in your industry is already doing it. And he is doing it with less than what you have and under more unforgiving conditions.

Stop using numbers that serve no purpose than to help you continue to live a life of self-deceit. Start producing industry standard work!