As given at the Social Connections 13 conference. Connections worst practises and how to avoid them

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Connections worst practises
from the real world
Sharon James & Tim Clark - BCC
@socialshazza @timsterc

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Who are we?
Tim Clark
• Director Services & Support
• Domino Admin (ish)
• Project Manager
Sharon James
• Senior Consultant
• WebSphere / Connections
• Loves documentation

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Real World Worst Practises
• If you build it they will come
• Zero to not quite so Hero
• All or Nothing
• When tuning goes bad

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If you build it
they will come

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If you build it ….
• It’s all about the people
• Solve a business need /
problem
• Do not deploy an empty
system
• Have an adoption plan
• Adopt your plan ☺

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Zero to not
quite Hero

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Zero to …
• Know the desired outcome
• Gather the requirements
properly - don’t guess
• Too many resources can be as
bad as not enough
• Build the test / dev / POC first
• Zero to hero is not the best
documentation
• What are building & why?
• Desired environment, HA, no
of users, etc.
• Environment overkill
• Don’t make your first build a
live system
• Great for a sandbox not much
else

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All or
Nothing

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Do not fall for All or Nothing
• Create a proper deployment
plan – Stick to it
• Deploy & test in phases
• Add new components only
when existing is signed off
• Use the k.i.s.s method

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Chaos Vs Planned Deployment
Deployed all at once – Install time 12 weeks due to
issues + migration time and 6 months of PMRs
Properly planned project – Install time 6 weeks in
total (which included pre and post migration testing)

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When tuning
goes bad

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When tuning goes bad
• Equivalent specs for each
node
• Data source tuning is essential
• JVM tuning should be revisited
• Throwing resources at a
problem doesn’t always fix it

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Tim
Sharon
dilftechnical
@socialshazza
timsterc
@timsterc
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contact@bcc.biz
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