On 27/11/14 19:26, Dave Angel wrote:
scale of things is quite large.
Does that package include any hooks for automating?
> Are they open to requests for improving their software,
or for validating your own front ends?
For both your organization and theirs:
Are you using source control?
Do you have a formal testing environment,
Do you have a backup strategy, both for code and for data?
Do you have strict security policies,
Have you planned for fault tolerance,
These things and many others you cannot get from a book,
Thee are a few books that tackle these issues but many are not
"developers" books they are for IT service managers
- The ITIL series springs to mind.
Other things to add are Release scheduling/upgrades,
Tech support (inc out of hours), Infrastructure management
(server/OS ageing - aka Win XP - etc), Disaster recovery,
and so on.
I once tried to interest a publisher in writing a book
"From Code to User" that focused on these non-development aspects
of projects (in my old job we called it "Delivery Management"(technical
stuff) as opposed to "Project Management"(financial/schedule stuff) ).
But the publisher turned it down because the audience was too small...
[ I spent 4 years of my life as a "Delivery Manager" for several large
projects ( ie. budget >$10m ) before returning to the relative sanity of
architecture and design! :-) ]
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