179: Project Planning

Intro topic: Lego event space & retail store: https://www.instagram.com/bambeecave News/Links: StackOverflow Question Count Going Down https://gist.github.com/hopeseekr/f522e380e35745bd5bdc3269a9f0b132 DeepSeek claims its ‘reasoning’ model beats OpenAI’s o1 on certain benchmarks https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/20/deepseek-claims-its-reasoning-model-beats-openais-o1-on-certain-benchmarks/ Computer Science Papers Every Developer Should Read https://newsletter.techworld-with-milan.com/p/computer-science-papers-every-developer Nvidia Cosmos - an AI platform to change the future of robots and cars - wins Best of CES 2025 https://www.zdnet.com/article/nvidia-signs-largest-car-maker-toyota-to-use-its-self-driving-tech/ Book of the Show Patrick: Alice’s Adventures in a differentiable wonderland https://www.sscardapane.it/alice-book/ Jason: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Hulu/Netflix/etc) Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h Tool of the Show Patrick: Digseum https://store.steampowered.com/app/3361470/Digseum/ Jason: Sqlitedict - Python dictionaries saved to disk 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 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★