The objective of APM Best Practices: Realizing Application Performance
Management is to establish reliable application performance management (APM)
practices.to demonstrate value, to do it quickly, and to adapt to the client
circumstances. It's important to balance long-term goals with short-term
deliverables, but without compromising usefulness or correctness.
The successful strategy is to establish a few reasonable goals, achieve them
quickly, and then iterate over the same topics two more times, with each
successive iteration expanding the skills and capabilities of the APM team.
This strategy is referred to as .Good, Better, Best..

The application performance monitoring marketplace is very focused on ease
of installation, rapid time to usefulness, and overall ease of use. But
these worthy platitudes do not really address the application performance
management processes that ensure that you will deploy effectively, synergize
on quality assurance test plans, triage accurately, and encourage collaboration
across the application life cycle that ultimately lowers overall application
cost and ensures a quality user experience. These are also fine platitudes but
these are the ones that are of interest to your application sponsors. These are
the ones for which you need to show value. This CA Press book employs this
iterative approach, adapted pragmatically for the realities of your
organizational and operational constraints, to realize a future state that
your sponsors will find useful, predictable and manageable.and something that
they will want to fund. In the meantime, you will learn the useful techniques
needed to set up and maintain a useful performance management system utilizing
best practices regardless of the software provider(s).

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