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Staying Technical

Discover strategies to keep your technical skills sharp as a technical program manager. Learn how to specialize in a domain, engage in technical projects, leverage internal and external resources, and deepen your understanding to enhance your program management effectiveness and industry relevance.

By keeping your technical skills sharp, you are staying relevant in the industry. Strong program management skills will carry you far but combined with sharp technical skills, you will make a deadly (and highly employable) combination. Here are some tips to keep those technical skills sharp:

Become a specialist

Many folks may disagree with this, but I strongly believe that finding a domain to become an expert in is the best way to retain your market value and have a fulfilling long-term career. By becoming a specialist, it will allow you to focus your time and energy on learning one domain and allows your knowledge to accumulate and compound over ...