Yes I am, Thank you for the ideas! Amanda Varella Enviado via iPad ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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ROBERT
bobcorrick...
Feb 24, 2012 2:50 pm
This is a great post. I hope Amanda is still watching! Bob Corrick....
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wbrianwhite
Feb 24, 2012 5:11 am
Here is how we solved a similar project at my company. We changed from a single database store to a sharded system, while also changing the data model and the...
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Scott Ambler
scottwambler
Jan 25, 2012 12:26 pm
The US Fed govt in general has been moving in this direction for awhile, including the DoD. It's likely a good thing they are trying to reduce waste....
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amitoj singh
amitoj_pb1
Jan 21, 2012 6:28 pm
Dear Members. I need your help because I have stuck between academics and industry. I am doing my research on KM practices in Agile teams, to accomplish this...
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Gabriel Tanase
datamodeller
Jan 11, 2012 2:18 pm
On the battlefield, in the server room, in the developers' halls of cubicles? In the procurement contracts too? More metadata for this info, please :-) Kind...
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deddy205ar
Jan 10, 2012 4:00 am
SecDef Leon Panata announced the Pentagon is going to be Agile. Good/great news?...
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amitoj
amitoj_pb1
Dec 6, 2011 1:41 pm
Dear Sir / Madam, Greetings I am pursuing my doctoral research from Punjabi University Patiala, My research objective is to find "Knowledge Management...
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Pramod Sadalage
psadalage
Nov 12, 2011 2:21 am
Hello, * Is there a way to assess, either qualitatively or quantitatively, the ... I don't know how defects would tell you technical debt because, even if you ...
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bomasamudram
Nov 11, 2011 8:41 pm
I am currently in a project in the automobile industry. We are building an automobile management system where it will be easy for an auto dealer to maintain...
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Scott Ambler
scottwambler
Sep 17, 2011 11:05 am
GT > Agile or not, technological and data dependencies cannot really be sidestepped by 'refactoring'. But, they can often be addressed through mocks or...
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Keith Ray
attkeithray
Sep 14, 2011 3:37 pm
Have you already read up on the various books about database refactoring? http://goo.gl/6ZBT7 Note that refactoring is not supposed to change behavior, so once...
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bobcorrick@...
bobcorrick...
Sep 14, 2011 10:54 am
Boma, It sounds as though your situation may be improved through evolutionary delivery rather than a big bang. For example: what are your BI clients using now...
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Gabriel Tanase
datamodeller
Sep 14, 2011 10:54 am
IMHO the project is trying to "chew" too much at the same time. I feel that "Joe" spoke the truth: how can a developer know how long it would take to finalize...
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bomasamudram
Sep 14, 2011 2:54 am
I am a managing a Netezza/Cognos implementation effort and there is a hard deadline to deliver a quality BI release (BI: Business Intelligence). The following...
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Paul
pdziggy
Sep 11, 2011 3:46 pm
Amanda, We've been in the process of a legacy system conversion such as yours now for the last 3 years. Coordinating the rewrite of over a dozen interconnected...
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deddy205ar
Sep 10, 2011 9:59 pm
Amanda - Will consideration be given to the existing data in the database? There's an activity called "data profiling" that looks at the actual data in every...
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Amanda Varella
amandavarell
Jul 20, 2011 1:40 pm
Pramod, very interesting the approach to incremental migration. Could be a very good strategy. In my context, I see I still will have the following challenges:...
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Don Albertson
duhprofessor
Jul 20, 2011 1:39 pm
... My operational definition of "legacy" is "using hardware or software that is no longer supported by the manufacturer/vendor". For example, about 9 years...
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w-p
toetah2000
Jul 20, 2011 8:43 am
... Often, you can have a transformation layer in the database as well as in the code. So you can define a set of stored routines that you develop against, or...
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David Poole
thetabetapi...
Jul 20, 2011 8:26 am
Timescales for migrating from an old system to new depend to a large extent on how well the existing system is known and understood. There needs to be a common...
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Vasco Figueira
vasco.figueira@...
Jul 20, 2011 8:26 am
Hi, ... If: 1. the new system will be using the new schema; 2. you can tolerate a downtime of a few hours; 3. you have a test site; 4. the old system is not...
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David Poole
thetabetapi...
Jul 20, 2011 8:26 am
There is a danger when rewriting legacy systems to assume that "legacy" means "not very good". I've experienced a major rewrite that addressed the weaknesses...
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Pramod Sadalage
psadalage
Jul 19, 2011 9:07 pm
In that case its actually a re-write and you want to migrate data.. may be this will help http://martinfowler.com/bliki/IncrementalMigration.html Cheers ...
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Amanda Varella
amandavarell
Jul 19, 2011 9:00 pm
Thank you for your answers. Completing my scenarium: 1 - It´s a information system, whose purpose is to have a strategic project portfolio and helps...
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Pramod Sadalage
psadalage
Jul 19, 2011 2:12 pm
You don't mention what kind of system is this. Web facing 24*7 or fat clients locally installed etc. As Willem said, it will be lot of work to keep both the...
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w-p
toetah2000
Jul 19, 2011 7:45 am
... You are not working on a live database are you? With enough database abstraction, you could switch databases, but a switch-while-running is a huge lot of...
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amandavarell
Jul 19, 2011 4:20 am
Hi, I´m new to this group. Now I´m involved in a decision of a migration of a legacy system. Here is the scenarium: 1 - The system is written in VB6 2 - It...
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edi lai
edi198
Jul 8, 2011 12:53 pm
Thanks to all who have participated in our survey. For all who want to participate there are still few days left to share your thoughts in...
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Ahmed Alnatheer
ahmed142080
Jul 1, 2011 6:47 pm
Dear friends, My name is Ahmed Alnatheer and I'm currently conducting empirical research full-time on the topic of...
