Assembling the Core Program Team
Explore how to assemble the core program team by identifying 1st-degree stakeholders such as executive sponsors, engineering leads, and product managers. Understand the importance of early stakeholder engagement, effective onboarding, and managing relationships across different degrees of involvement to set your technical program up for success.
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Who is the core program team?
Getting the necessary stakeholders involved early on accelerates the initial velocity of your program.
Your first focus in program initiation is to assemble the 1st-degree stakeholders and the core program team. This team will own most of the engineering and product decisions.
One of the most important, straightforward things to remember: not all stakeholders are the same.
We'll explore stakeholder management in a future lesson, but during the initiation phase of a program, it is essential that you:
Partner with the executive sponsor. It may not be an actual executive, but this person takes primary accountability for the program's outcomes. This is often the person who initiated the program.
Partner with engineering leads. Early partnership with engineering is necessary. There is likely a small group of engineering teams that will be core contributors to the program. Begin building relationships with the managers ...