<p>How you communicate best, I think, is by balancing the benefits of one practice (which you need to be able to express) against drawbacks and the benefits of doing something else, in a specific context. </p><p>Much of the problem with "best practices" is that they're isolated from context. </p><p>They are still useful intuitive guidelines for when alarm bells should go off when they're not followed, but a considered decision to break them is fine.</p>
