Company standards make every project start well: a short standard, templates that apply it, and a library of checked content. Keep them small, owned and versioned.
Every project starts with the same questions: how to name files, which views to set up, what parameters to add, how to export. A firm that answers them once, in a company standard applied by templates and a library of checked content, starts every project well. A firm that doesn't answers them again on every project, differently each time.
Sort each item: does it belong in the firm's own standard, or should the standard just refer to an external one?
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