Plate Spinning is another excellent skill for software developers to be able to demonstrate live at job interviews.
The trick to successfully managing a lot of projects at the same time, as well as spinning plates, is to only try to spin one up at a time. Once it's up and spinning, you can hop back and forth between spinning projects as needed to give them a little more energy and balance. But it's much more difficult to start several of them spinning at once!
Erich Brenn "Plate Spinning" on The Ed Sullivan Show:
The trick to successfully managing a lot of projects at the same time, as well as spinning plates, is to only try to spin one up at a time. Once it's up and spinning, you can hop back and forth between spinning projects as needed to give them a little more energy and balance. But it's much more difficult to start several of them spinning at once!
Erich Brenn "Plate Spinning" on The Ed Sullivan Show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhoos1oY404
It also helps to show how you can recover from errors gracefully:
Charlie Callas Spinning Plates:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK4nh5I0jpE