Posts tagged with: planning

Planning Upgrades, Migrations, Consolidations.. SQL and more

Steve Jones posted a good editorial a month or so ago about why he typically prefers side-by-side migrations over in-place upgrades. If you are running virtualized and want to upgrade in-place then it is not horrendous if you need to revert back...
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To handle uncertainty and risk.. use Spikes

I had this tagged for a blog post for quite a while now and since we had a similar situation come up in sprint planning for the ED tool yesterday this is a great time to post on it. Basically,...
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Avoiding the 2 X 4 to the face

A couple months ago I read a post by Seth Godin entitled “Duck!“. In it he talks about avoiding the 2X4 to the face. “You’re running it at it full speed, and in a moment, you’re going to slam into...
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Improving Project Success

There was a timely editorial posted this morning on SQL Server Central by Steve Jones concerning Successful Projects. In his post he references Kevin Whitson’s The Kevin Test for Successful Projects, which was inspired by The Rands Test   and Joel...
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Project Pre-Kickoff Road-mapping and Scoping

In many cases we are asked to give a WAG for a project very early in the process. This typically includes the assumptions  we made, and any known risks. As the project progresses it is usually necessary to spend some...
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