Examining the Need for a Technical Background
Understand the necessity of a technical background in the role of a Technical Program Manager. This lesson helps you explore how specialized technical skills complement project and program management to enhance effectiveness and create specialized TPM career paths.
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In this chapter, we’ll make the case for the technical toolset. Introduced earlier, the technical toolset is a foundational pillar for a TPM. It is the connecting glue between the other pillars—program and project management—and sets a TPM apart from a generalist PM.
We’ll continue by discussing the various tools in the technical toolset and how they help us not only excel at our job but also work across job families as the need arises.
We’ll explore the technical toolset through the following topics:
Examining the need for a technical background
Defining the technical toolset
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Overview
While discussing the origins of the TPM role, we looked at the role of the PM and how gaps in ...