One of the things that can make user acceptance testing go horribly wrong is that the users have no idea what they are supposed to be doing. They do not know how to use the system. They do not know…
Preparing for User Acceptance Testing
Tagged with: Project Management, template, testing, user acceptance testing, User interface, web application development
Posted in BLOG, Clients, Consulting, Development
Posted in BLOG, Clients, Consulting, Development
Thoughts on Performance Tuning
Michael Rosenblum and I are writing a book about PL/SQL performance tuning for Oracle Press. I started thinking about the “big picture” ideas that everyone should know. The following is the list that I came up with. If you have…
The Evolution of a Project into a Product
I suspect that most software products have their origins as a project. We are seeing the birth of such a product so I thought I would blog about it. Earlier I wrote a couple of posts about our next generation…
Tagged with: code generator, medical history, survey, web application development
Posted in BLOG, Consulting, Development
Posted in BLOG, Consulting, Development
Business Rules Concepts – Chapter 3: What You Need to Know About Rulebook Management
This is a review of the latest edition of Ron Ross’ Business Rules Concepts book in relationship with our thinking at Dulcian about business rules. Ron Ross offers a free download of the first two chapters of this 4th edition of his book. We previously reviewed…
Tagged with: Business rule, Business rules approach
Posted in BLOG, Business Rules, Industry News, Publications
Posted in BLOG, Business Rules, Industry News, Publications
The Implementation Business Rules Manifesto
Everyone likes manifestos. They sound fun. They are short. They try to distill “the core ideas.” First, what is an “implementation rule”? Lots of people use the term “business rules,” but there are lots of different concepts that all seem…
Tagged with: Business rule, Business rules approach
Posted in BLOG, Business Rules, Dulcian News, What's New
Posted in BLOG, Business Rules, Dulcian News, What's New
Writing a Good Project Status Report
I think that weekly status reports for IT projects are a great idea. They inform the client what is going on and (just as important) keep the project manager honest about the true status of the project. Having a simple…
If you don’t ask, you will never find out why your system is performing poorly
We had a large operation that took up to a minute to run. It was copying data to a staging area, running over a thousand data validation rules (~50,000 lines of code), and then formatting all of the validation errors…
Business Rules Concepts 4th edition – by Ron Ross – Chapter 2 Review
This post is a review of the second chapter of Ron Ross’ new book Business Rules Concepts – 4th edition. The first two chapters can be downloaded. Here is where Ron Ross and I will have to respectfully agree to…
Blow it Up, Throw it Out, and Start Over
One of the hardest things to do in a systems project is to act on the knowledge that you are on a sub-optimal path. Notice that I am not even calling it a “mistake.” This just means that somewhere along…
Business Rules Concepts 4th edition – by Ron Ross – Chapter 1 Review
One of my employees asked me to review the latest edition of Ron Ross’ Business Rules Concepts book and discuss my thoughts. He offers a free download of the first two chapters of this 4th edition of his book. First, let me state…
Tagged with: Business rule, UML, Unified Modeling Language
Posted in BLOG, Business Rules, Publications
Posted in BLOG, Business Rules, Publications
