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Programming Throwdown

179: Project Planning

Programming Throwdown

Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci

Objective C, Tech News, Programming Languages, News, Education, How To, C, Python, Programming Throwdown, Java

4.5610 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Patrick and Jason discuss project planning and management for software teams. They cover why planning matters, how frameworks like SMART goals, Gantt charts, Scrum, Agile, and Kanban fit together, and how to deal with uncertainty, dependencies, and scheduling risk.

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0:00.0

Programming Throwdown Episode 179 Project Planning.

0:20.6

Take it away, Jason.

0:22.3

Hey, everybody.

0:23.9

It is so fun to actually do these duo shows, I have to say.

0:28.8

I think the interviews were super lucky that we could get such a multi-disciplinary set of talented people to do interviews.

0:36.4

And I appreciate everybody reaching out. We get many, many requests to interview. Yeah, we do. We get a lot. Yeah, we get, we get, I get a ton in my personal email, too, that you don't even see. Oh, really? You get a lot in your personal email? Nope. Yeah, see, mine's too available. So we really appreciate it. I mean, we're honored that so many people want to be on the show, but, but it's just

0:57.8

really fun, just the two of us talking about tech stuff.

1:01.2

So we're going to keep it like this for a while.

1:04.9

And I will kick us off with a store that we opened.

1:09.9

So, or I say by we now I'm talking about my wife and I Or I say by we,

1:12.4

now I'm talking about my wife and I.

1:14.1

And really by we,

1:15.0

I mean my wife open.

1:16.5

I did a lot of the manual labor.

1:19.1

But we opened a,

1:22.6

it's called bricks and mini figs.

1:25.1

It's a franchise.

1:27.2

And it's basically an event space and a retail space.

1:31.0

So on the on the retail side, you know, they sell Lego, you know, they sell like bricks

1:38.5

and mini figs.

1:39.4

It's suggested like sets and all of that.

1:41.4

They also have like a thing where you can build your own mini figure.

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