Project Planning
Ultimately, the value of planning isn’t that you execute the plan perfectly, that you catch every detail beforehand, or that you predict the future; it’s that you enforce the self-discipline to think about the project in some depth before diving in and seeing what happens. (Fournier 2017, chap. 3)
You have 10 productive engineering weeks per engineer per quarter (Fournier 2017, chap. 5)
Budget 20% of time for generic sustaining engineering work across the board (Fournier 2017, chap. 5)
Fournier, Camille. 2017. The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change. O’Reilly Media, Inc.