{"id":1466,"date":"2014-12-14T12:28:14","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T18:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/?p=1466"},"modified":"2014-12-14T12:28:37","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T18:28:37","slug":"justinism-parking-lot-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/justinism-parking-lot-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Justinism:  &#8220;Parking lot&#8221; problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Solving some problems requires a detailed series of interdependent steps, or a careful arranging of resources at each step, in order to be successful.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There is a game, using blocks, called the &#8220;parking lot&#8221; puzzle. \u00a0You arrange the blocks on a board of fixed size, according to the layout depicted on one of many cards. \u00a0You slide each block in one direction at a time, without overlapping the blocks, to try to get a specific &#8220;car&#8221; (block) out of the parking lot. \u00a0Solving each challenge often requires a long series of well-planned steps in order to accomplish the goal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Several situations, where there are limited resources or tight constraints, can become a &#8220;parking lot&#8221; problem:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Migrations involving leap-frogging servers or other resources. \u00a0Leap-frogging means that you migrate from server A to server B, freeing up server A to be used as the target of the next migration.<\/li>\n<li>Many steps must be accomplished in a narrow window.<\/li>\n<li>Sufficient people resources to staff a specified level of concurrency.<\/li>\n<li>Specified number of migration windows, where multiple steps or specific work effort must be accomplished within each window.<\/li>\n<li>Combinations of the above.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sometimes, a goal-oriented approach, with detailed planning for resource allocation across multiple steps, is required in order to solve resource-constrained problems.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For &#8220;parking lot&#8221; problems, have a thorough and complete plan, detailing sequence, task assignments, and resource allocation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solving some problems requires a detailed series of interdependent steps, or a careful arranging of resources at each step, in order to be successful. &nbsp; There is a game, using blocks, called the &#8220;parking lot&#8221; puzzle. \u00a0You arrange the blocks on a board of fixed size, according to the layout depicted on one of many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justinisms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1466"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1468,"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions\/1468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}