“One should not appraise human action on the basis of its results.” -  Jakob Bernoulli (1654-1705) This statement has significant implications on devising metrics for Performance Management. In fact, at first glance it could be interpreted as why should we m... [More]

While I was doing load test last month, I ran into some issues that wasn’t common from Google search. Therefore, I decided to share the solution to benefit my fellow developers. Unexpected timeout at the 30th minute: Issue: The load test got aborted at the 30th minute. Solution: If you need to... [More]

The last objective I will look at as part of the series supporting Metrics for Successful Project Delivery is “Deliver Projects on Time”. Along with budget it is the most watched metric for projects. The key point to recognize is different people in an organization have different ways to contributin... [More]

Gartner frequently publishes a very interesting take on technology that they call the “Hype Cycle”.  In it, they analyze technology advancements through a lifecycle that includes a Technology Trigger that starts things off, a period called the Peak of Inflated Expectations where things are hype... [More]

Last week I discussed the objective “Maintain high project data quality”. I’m going to keep on the quality theme but switch to the objective “Provide high quality deliverables”. Deliverables mean different things depending on what business you are in. For the purposes of this discussion I will assum... [More]

The morning radio I listened to today had a list of the “Best Jobs for the Future”.  Software engineer came second, behind Actuary.  Now I’m not one to frown on another profession, but this seemed a little out of order.  Actuaries deal mostly with numbers and arcane issues of mortalit... [More]

Recently we needed to simulate real world load on a web application.  We found that testing from multiple computers from within our office was not useful since we quickly saturated our internet connection.  Using Microsoft Visual Studio Test Lab Manager you can use remote test agents, conn... [More]

In my previous post, Metrics for Successful Project Delivery, I mentioned that I am kicking off a series of posts that provide objectives and supporting metrics for  managing the delivery of projects. The objective “maintain high project data quality” is a key objective to implement first. With... [More]