A List of CaP Skills

This question popped up recently on Linkedin:

"Can someone tell me what skill set should a Performance and Capacity Analyst have and develop throughout his career?"

and I realized that, although I have a kind of list in my head, and I talk about such skills in my classes, I have been too lazy to write them down anywhere; which is pretty dumb. I must try to do something about that (New Year resolution? What are the odds?). In some ways, my fallback is the online Guerrilla Manual. Anyway, here is my (slightly edited) response to the LI question, and let it therefore constitute my first attempt at writing down such a list.

Season's Greetings 2011

Best wishes to all my blog readers and Guerrilla class alumni during this 2011 holiday season. I look forward to more of the same next year.

Image: The winter lights of Silicon Valley, California, from Mt. Hamilton webcam courtesy of UC Regents and Lick Observatory.