Ricky & Stick - Find Out the Details Early
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Chronologically speaking, deployment of a system comes late in the life cycle. But knowledge about where the system will actually be installed and run is needed way upfront, when the requirements are being decided.
And it's painful to observe how often this kind of experience really occurs -- how often everyone concentrates only on the system and forgets to think ahead about deployment. And when that happens, it's not all that different from poor Ricky and Stick, who worked so hard blowing up their huge floats, not realizing that the vast Olympic pool they expected to find was nothing like the dinky wading pool they eventually found.
Bottom line: Find out early as many grisly deployment details as you can. Get explicit answers to such questions as: "Where is the system going to be deployed? What is the physical location? What hardware will it run on? What else will share the operating environment?" Such knowledge is no less critical than any of the other requirements, and getting this knowledge early can only help.
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