Challenges of Implementing Large Ideas Solo in Tech Projects
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Summary
The article discusses the limitations of implementing large ideas alone compared to leading a team in a tech project. The author reflects on their ability to manage discovery sessions, design architecture, project management, and hands-on development but acknowledges the constraints of working solo on complex implementations at scale.
Key quotes
· 2 pulledI can and have lead discovery sessions either virtually or hop on plane and do it in person, design the architecture, be a halfway decent project manager, tech lead, hands on development, take an empty AWS account and set up best practices from a security, networking, deployment pipelines, etc.
But I can’t do it all at once and there is still only so much I can do at once and no business would be happy with the length of time it would take me or any one person to do a complex implementation at scale.
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