The Standard should not handcuff creativity

Many times I have heard people say that “a standard handcuffs creativity. When we put rules in place, creativity stops.” They say “When someone is tasked with following a standard, they get bogged down in rules and creativity is dead.”

I say that standards allow greater creativity because you are not burdened with trying to figure out what to do in any given situation. You just look up the answer in the standard and move on. You don’t have to waste time discussing what could, should, must be done. It is already documented.

Creativity can thrive because the boundaries are in place. This allows more people to handle your file and work creatively in it because it works the way they expect it to work.