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Deployment

A Failed Deployment

Josh was ready for the project to be over. He had written many change orders and handled lots out-of-scope requests from the client. Worse, the project was behind schedule and the budget was depleted. Josh wanted to launch the web site and put this project behind him. The quicker this project became a memory, the better.

The launch involved importing a large data set and user accounts and upgrading a live, production web site. The development team had done the import once during testing. Although they had hit a few bugs, they had updated the script so that it would work better during the next import. However, due ...

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