A battle not a resigned statement
Im proud to announce that I rejoice in membership number 9 of the BAAG party Unlike the Oaktable membership this new initiative is open to all, and I encourage you to join the comrades - quite why a Russian would choose this collective noun is beyond me by they way.
BAAG is as the name suggests a group of people who are fed up with the guess and hope or GAH methodology so often employed across IT. Anytime you are in a meeting and you hear a collection of statements along the lines of
"It doesn't happen in our London office - it must be a network issue"
"No, no I've only seen it on Windows XPSP2 machines it must be a firewall configuration"
"Have you checked the database, perhaps we need cursor_sharing"
well then you know that GAH is embedded in the troubleshooting methodology of the organisation.
Folks it isn't too late to stop this. Modern operating systems, databases and applications have logs, can write debug information are instrumented. You should not need to guess, though you may need to understand the technology stack better than you have before. Of course if your application cannot do this, it isn't a modern application and you should be thinking about how it might be replaced/improved/rewritten. The BAARF party of which I am not a member, is fed up with losing the argument about disk architecture for databases, the BAAG party can actively camplaign for improved professional standards in our industry. Join today, stop guessing and start diagnosing.
Thanks
Thanks Niall! I'm glad you like it.
You should not need to guess, though you may need to understand the technology stack better than you have before.
Interesting, that thorough understanding of technologies used make your guesses very educated and give you higher chances to guess it right. This provides more pressure on analyst and pushes towards GAH methodology.
A scientific investigation, on the other hand, allows less knowledgeable (but disciplined) analyst to solve the problem.
Interesting
Thanks for the link to this Niall, I have joined. i think its a good idea, i like the idea of having a methodology to acheive something and not to rely on costly guess work.
cheers
Pete
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