Re: Thinking Methodically about building a PoC

[Hugo Slabbert <hugo () slabnet com>]

On Mon 2016-Jun-13 08:52:41 -0500, Possamai Rafael via NANOG <nanog () nanog org> wrote:

> This may not be an answer very specific to your problem/question, but if
> you take a look at the following image, you will find a summary of what
> they called the engineering design methodology:
>
> http://www.cdn.sciencebuddies.org/Files/5083/9/2013-updated_engineering-method-steps_v6b.png

Seriously thought initially that you were going to link to:

http://i2.wp.com/tamingdata.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/tree-swing-project-management-large.png

> You can adapt it to your circumstances, for example: instead of defining a
> problem in step 1, you can define a product, and after knowing what is
> expected from that product, you can then move to background research, etc.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
>
> Rafael

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> On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 8:52 PM, Kasper Adel <karim.adel () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > hi,
> >
> > I am asked to build a large lab/test it. I'm provided crazy scale numbers
> > for lots of technologies (L*VPN, IPv*, IGP*, All Tunnels flavors...etc).
> >
> > It took me a lot of time to build this lab, because when I got the
> > request/test plan handed over to me, I did not verify that these scaled
> > numbers are even possible, not to mention the combination. I assumed some
> > thought/research were done before.
> >
> > I'm trying to put together a list of the lessons learned, and the right way
> > to do this for future reference, specially that this project was time
> > critical and I got beaten hard because I did not deliver on time.
> >
> > So my question is, in your extensive experience, what is the right
> > method/approach to this kind of task:
> >
> > 1) Get started immediately (MVP), things will break, tune it along the way.
> > 2) Do some planning and research first.
> >
> > I'd appreciate any references to 'software engineering' or other
> > industries/
> >
> > Thanks

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