these projects generally seem to fail not because of software engineering but because of some non-technical thing
Agreed, though this seems mainly for getting them off the ground (making sure you find an important problem). Software startups also have this problem; and there’s a lot of discussion & best practices about the right kinds of people & teams for software startups.
Agreed. I think it would be cool for someone to create an “engineering agenda” that entrepreneurial software developers could take ideas from and start working on, analogous to e.g. this post from Michael.
(I think this would be one level of detail more specific than your project ideas listed in OP. E.g. instead of “better data management” it’s something like “organization X wants data Y displayed in way Z.” Possibly you are planning this for later posts in this sequence already?)
I think it would be cool for someone to create an “engineering agenda” that entrepreneurial software developers could take ideas from and start working on, analogous
I think my hunch is that this is almost like asking for an “entrepreneur agenda”. There are really a ton of options.
I’m happy to see people list all the ideas they can come up with.
I imagine “agendas” would be easier to rigorously organize if you limit yourself to a more specific area. (So, I’d want to see many “research agendas” :) )
Possibly you are planning this for later posts in this sequence already
My main area is forecasting and evaluation. (A la QURY). The plan is to spend time writing up my thoughts on it and then use that to describe an agenda of some kind. This is more cause-specific than skill-specific, but maybe 2/3rds of the work would be for software engineering.
I think it would be cool for someone to create an “engineering agenda” that entrepreneurial software developers could take ideas from and start working on, analogous to e.g. this post from Michael.
As an early career software developer who’d love to take on an EA-related project for skill building purposes, I’d be great to have a resource like this available.
Noted!
Agreed, though this seems mainly for getting them off the ground (making sure you find an important problem). Software startups also have this problem; and there’s a lot of discussion & best practices about the right kinds of people & teams for software startups.
Agreed. I think it would be cool for someone to create an “engineering agenda” that entrepreneurial software developers could take ideas from and start working on, analogous to e.g. this post from Michael.
(I think this would be one level of detail more specific than your project ideas listed in OP. E.g. instead of “better data management” it’s something like “organization X wants data Y displayed in way Z.” Possibly you are planning this for later posts in this sequence already?)
I think my hunch is that this is almost like asking for an “entrepreneur agenda”. There are really a ton of options.
I’m happy to see people list all the ideas they can come up with.
I imagine “agendas” would be easier to rigorously organize if you limit yourself to a more specific area. (So, I’d want to see many “research agendas” :) )
My main area is forecasting and evaluation. (A la QURY). The plan is to spend time writing up my thoughts on it and then use that to describe an agenda of some kind. This is more cause-specific than skill-specific, but maybe 2/3rds of the work would be for software engineering.
As an early career software developer who’d love to take on an EA-related project for skill building purposes, I’d be great to have a resource like this available.