As a technical program manager, your role involves overseeing and coordinating multiple projects, teams, and stakeholders to achieve organizational objectives. To ensure smooth progress and timely delivery, it’s crucial to measure and optimize the flow of work within your programs. Flow metrics provide valuable insights into the efficiency, bottlenecks, and overall health of your program. What is […]
In the tech industry, several key roles play a critical part in driving projects, managing teams, and delivering successful products. Three roles that are often discussed and sometimes misunderstood are the Technical Program Manager (TPM), Engineering Manager, and Product Manager. While these roles can overlap in certain areas, they have distinct responsibilities and focus areas. […]
In the realm of project management, two fundamental terms often arise: projects and programs. While they share similarities, distinguishing between them is crucial for effective management and successful execution. This article aims to shed light on the key differences between a project and a program, enabling project managers and stakeholders to understand their unique characteristics […]
As a project manager, one of the most important skills you can possess is the ability to manage risk. One of the most effective ways to manage risk is to add buffers to your project schedule. A buffer is an extra amount of time added to a task or a series of tasks in order […]
We use Critical Path as a tool in a project management to help us identify the longest sequence of tasks that must be completed in order for a project to be finished on time. Calculating the critical path is an essential step in project planning and management, as it helps project managers to allocate resources […]
User stories are a key element of Agile project management, as they help to define and prioritize the requirements of a project. User stories are brief, concise statements that describe a particular feature or functionality from the perspective of the end user. However, creating user stories can sometimes be a challenge, especially when the requirements […]
Amidst the fog of excitement and gratification in receiving a job offer, you will need to determine if you should leave your current role for this offer, or the fortune of deciding amongst multiple offers. Put aside the numbers on a sheet, is this company the right cultural fit for you? Are you jumping from […]
Courtesy of Fact of Day 1 A RACI chart is a matrix used to assign roles and responsibilities for milestones of a project. Mapping out ownership eliminates the confusion of “who’s doing what?” Responsible: The team member owning completion. Accountable: The team member who validates the deliverable before it’s deemed complete. Consulted: The people who […]
An instrument for decomposing complex problems into simplified solutions, is the strategy of first principles thinking, often otherwise known as reasoning from first principles, and is often leveraged by self-made geniuses such as Elon Musk. In other words, a form of mental reverse engineering. Techtello best puts it as realigning your mindset to demarcate from […]
Amazon’s catalyst for innovation lies in its perspective to always think from the customer backwards. That’s how most successful projects get done, and it all starts with the commonly used Amazonian phrase, working backwards. Before building a charter, a project plan and setting out timelines, the first artifact that a customer-centric project entails is the […]
