Robert.Sterbal (1/27/2014)
I'm not sure why the industry adopted the term best practices. I much prefer calling them recommended practices, and should be called that only when you can cite how the recommendation applies to what you are doing.
I like the term "best practices" because it more easily gathers recommendations together when related to particular technologies, especially in the age of google, like folks wanting to get up to speed on a tech can google "best practies <technology>" and see whats up.