Thinking Methodically about building a PoC

Mon Jun 13 15:29:51 UTC 2016

On Mon 2016-Jun-13 08:52:41 -0500, Possamai Rafael via NANOG <nanog at 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 at 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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