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“Transparency is a rare commodity in acomplex project.”In project management, we spend a lot of time and money forecasting what we think is going to happen. Predicting a future outcome and spotting problems are fundamental to the process because those insights drive...

“The ability to identify problems and address them asquickly as possible depends on the team’s knowledgeand experience.” Complex projects typically have many people involved. For instance, when we do a website project, we have our own team of subject matter experts,...

“If something breaks, the application should be coded to fail gracefully and provide the relevant debugging information as part of its output. This behavior should be an immutable part of your application framework.”   Effective troubleshooting depends on being...

“Knowing what is normal comes from buildingstandardization into the application infrastructure,application design, and deployment.”   Visibility is required to show you what is and is not normal in an application environment. Knowing what is normal comes from...

“Addressing these security challenges requirescomplete database visualization. It involvesmoving data protection into the application layer.”  Securing the data used in componentized applications is challenging. There is a perception that cloud vendors use the best...

“You need to assume that parts of your infrastructure are compromised, and then respond to that by making sure that even if the first or second layer is compromised, your data is still not accessible.” Data security is a challenge for developers because three types of...

“You must consider the operations side, especially for business-critical applications, because it falls on the DevOps team to keep everything running.” A major obstacle to speedy application development, especially in large organizations, is getting the project off...

“Many companies have pandemic plans, but until they actually experience a pandemic, they don’t know how far from reality that plan actually is.”  One factor that can seriously slow down application development is making bad choices in application architecture or...

“When making infrastructure decisions, choose the bestbalance of costs and performance. . . . Your infrastructuremust ultimately support the balance you choose.” When making infrastructure decisions, think about who’s going to be using the application, what kind of...