1.3.2 Roadmap
It is critically important to get your project off to a good start and lay down the correct performance foundation from day one.
In our experience, the lack of a performance roadmap indicates a J2EE-based project heading for trouble. Your performance roadmap must cover the salient points of performance best practice. Key aspects of this roadmap include:
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| Understanding your performance objectives |
| Studying existing systems or modelling proposed systems |
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| Planning the key milestones within the project |
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| Communicating the objectives and ensuring that all participants are clear on the meaning of any performance-related terminology |
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| Identifying the tooling that you are going to use for testing |
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| Identifying key personnel and skills |
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| Identifying skills gaps and providing for training |
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| Including a mandatory performance and caching section in design documents |
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| Mentoring developers on the plan and insisting that they do performance tests early and often |
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| Developing and testing caching as part of development activity |
| Note: The development environment now includes a full test server (Rational® Application Developer v6). |