Speaker(s): Richard Campbell
The IT/Dev Meeting Need senior staff from both IT and dev to make app related decisions. Email < IM < Phone < Meeting < Lunch/Food Priorities - Accuracy (Generally first) - Reliability (Generally second) - Performance - Scalability Put them in order, every site has different priorities Give the CTO an account call "Administrator" that is actually a guest user. Web.Config authorization - None - Windows (Active Directory, Basic) - Forms Based appSettings - Connection strings - Ensure they are used or remove them. customErrors sessionState - In-process vs. out-of-process - load balancing Load Balancing - How to make SQL server fail over cleanly. Performance Bottlenecks - Scheduled tasks - Key points that could take the application down. Things Dev Need to Know Network Diagram Production Logs - Truth about what is happening with the application - Analysis to create test data (web trends). What are the users actually doing. Disaster Recovery - coding support requirements. How much data can be lost? After the IT/DEV meeting - Get business buy in Summary - Meet with IT/Dev early - repeat
