Just published my first content video on YouTube. Me rambling for 30 minutes on the topic of basic capacity planning.
Some of the points I make:
- Don’t really need plans if you have no external stakeholders and just want to hack away at the next great thing. It’ll just slow you down. Spent much of my University grad school career doing just that, in some pretty sizeable projects with multiple team members. We were very productive!
- But… as soon as you have some external stakeholders, you need to plan. I gave a fictional example about a young software entrepreneur hitting up “Uncle Charlie” for an investment to provide subsistence pay for a couple of devs to get things going.
- I bring up on the screen a simple-minded dev plan he can share with Uncle Charlie to give him some comfort.
- Then gave a “hypothetical” (?) example of a board meeting for a 500 person software company where product management pulls up a date they never cleared with you. Much hilarity ensues.
- Emphasized how doing this sort of basic planning was a giant key to my personal success.
I (clearly) enjoyed myself making the video!
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