Technical Program Management · 300-level
Technical Program Management
A senior-level deep dive into running cross-org technical programs to delivery: role clarity and influence, decomposition and phased roadmaps, dependency and risk management, technical fluency, executive communication, launch and cutover execution, and program-health measurement.
TPM-3013 creditselectiveno prerequisites
What's inside
Sections & lessons
01
The TPM role
- What a TPM owns versus PM and EMconcept40 min
- Influence without authority: the currencies a TPM spendsconcept40 min
- Quantifying the value a TPM addsconcept35 min
02
Program planning & roadmaps
- Decomposing a program into workstreams and milestonesconcept40 min
- Phasing and sequencing: what ships when, and whyconcept35 min
- Estimation realism: three-point estimates and aggregation errorconcept45 min
- Building a roadmap that survives contact with realitydemo40 min
03
Cross-team coordination
- Driving alignment: the written artifactconcept35 min
- RACI and decision rights: one accountable owner per callconcept40 min
- Running syncs worth the salary in the roomconcept35 min
- Working across org boundaries and competing prioritiesconcept35 min
04
Risk & dependency management
- Dependency mapping and the critical pathconcept45 min
- The risk register: exposure and mitigationconcept40 min
- Unblocking: the TPM's core daily loopconcept35 min
- Buffers, slack, and schedule realismconcept40 min
05
Technical fluency for TPMs
- Reading architecture and system designconcept40 min
- Asking the technical questions that surface riskconcept35 min
- Tradeoff literacy: build/buy, latency/cost, consistency/availabilityconcept45 min
06
Stakeholder & executive communication
- Status that lands in an executive's attention budgetconcept35 min
- Escalation: when, how, and to whomconcept35 min
- Managing up and sidewaysconcept35 min
- Narrative and data: building the exec reviewdemo40 min
07
Execution & delivery
- Agile at scale: the coordination layer above teamsconcept40 min
- Launch management and go/no-goconcept40 min
- Cutovers, migrations, and rollback plansdemo40 min
- Tracking without micromanagingconcept35 min
08
Metrics, retrospectives & program health
- Leading versus lagging indicatorsconcept40 min
- Program health: reading the dashboardconcept35 min
- Retrospectives that change behaviorconcept35 min
- Continuous improvement and the program-management loopreflection30 min
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