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Programming Throwdown

179: Project Planning

Programming Throwdown

Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci

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

4.6604 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Intro topic: Lego event space & retail store: https://www.instagram.com/bambeecave 

News/Links:

Book of the Show


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Tool of the Show

Topic: Project Planning and Management

  • Why?
    • Gathering feedback
    • Identifying risks
    • Deciding future headcount
    • Documenting / discovering dependencies
    • Critical path
    • Schedule
    • Reduce the bullwhip effect
  • How it works
    • SMART goals
      • specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound
      • MT is most important
    • Gantt Charts
    • Scrum
    • Agile
    • Kanban
  • Tools
    • Whiteboard (the generic IRL one)
    • Post it notes
    • JIRA
    • Asana
    • OpenProject
  • Dealing with uncertainty
    • Buffering
      • Issues with recursive padding
    • Project planning Post-Mortems

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Transcript

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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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