Create a Pragmatic Investment Plan
Now that you have your goals well in hand, you need something like a plan to help execute them.
Back in The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master [HT00], we suggested you consider your skills and talents as a knowledge portfolio. That is, the skills you learn and the knowledge you master all become part of your portfolio. And like any portfolio—financial or artistic—it must be managed as time goes by.
For several years, Dave Thomas and I have presented the Pragmatic Investment Plan as part of our consulting practice, and I’m including a shortened version of it here for you. The Pragmatic Investment Plan is based on a very simple but effective idea: model your knowledge portfolio with the same ...
Get Pragmatic Thinking and Learning now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
