2.3 Plan your activities

Keeping with the theme of this chapter, here we provide a high level sample project plan, without delving deep into the details. The diagram in Figure 2-1 should be self-explanatory, but we review some of the key aspects of project planning below.

Attention: Performance and High Availability considerations must be an integral part of all design, development, test, maintenance, and even business discussions.

Putting performance considerations off until later in the project (until the performance test phase and, even at that stage, compromising the scope of performance testing) is a common, dangerous, and very expensive mistake.

Figure 2-1 Planning your site development with High Availability and performance considerations

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