lshanahan (12/2/2013)
I think this snippet from the MongoDB article sums it up nicely:This was ultimately a communication problem rather than a technical problem. If these conversations had happened sooner, if we had taken the time to really understand how the client saw the data and what they wanted to do with it, we probably would have done the conversion earlier, when there was less data, and it was easier.
I'll be good and spare everyone the inevitable "Cool Hand Luke" reference...
Due to this being the day after a long holiday, I just saw this. My last post pointed to "skills" as being either pure technical or what I referred to as poor planning skills. To me, technical projects require technical planning skills, not just day to day planning skills. Technical projects are unique.
Back to fire fighting...
Dave