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The Switching Gears Factor
This summer we gave a presentation on simplifying the software estimation process for modern distributed systems. In it, we tried to boil down 10 years of thinking and experience on the subject; our goal was to make the process much more repeatable than it has historically been and as simple as is appropriate. On this particular day, a colleague from a client of ours approached me after the formal Q&A period and asked a question that demonstrated the level of hard-won expertise and critical thinking about estimation and project management she possess.
To paraphrase, she asked “I’ve developed my own techniques to estimate how working on multiple projects impacts a person’s productivity, what are your thoughts and references on the topic?” In essence, the topic of this question is what we — ALTERthought — call the switching gears factor. She inspired this post.
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posted 12 October 2008 @ 21:01 by sunjay » 0 Comments
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Grails Testing Tip (DO’s, DONT’s and DOH’s): Fixture Data vs. Dependent Data
DO: Distinguish between Fixture Data and Dependent Data
Integration testing can be painful enough under the best of circumstances. Confusion around where data comes from, when it should be deleted, rolled back or committed can derail the even the best laid plans. (This is especially true in more complicated projects that involve multiple datasources, that […]
5 September 2008 » read » 0 Comments
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Terracotta Plugin for Grails
I have created a new Grails Plugin to help in the development of Grails applications clustered using Terracotta. The details of this plugin can also be found at http://www.grails.org/Terracotta+Plugin.
Terracotta is a Java infrastructure that allows you to scale your application by clustering JVMs.
Features
Generation of a terracotta configuration file
Generation of terracotta enabled start up scripts for […]
