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......
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......
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......
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......
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......