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As a Technical Program Manager (TPM), trust is your most valuable currency. It enables you to influence without...
Building Trust As A Technical Program Manager
Trust is the cornerstone of success for a technical program manager. Here, we will learn how to earn trust within an...
TPM Guide: The Art of Stakeholder Management
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How TPMs Turn Conflict Into Collaboration
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Mastering Writing for Technical Program Managers
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TPM Career: The Power of Crafting Your Performance Summary
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What Does a Technical Program Manager Do?
Most if not all ‘Tech’ companies have been slowly doing away with the traditional ‘Project Manager’ title/ role for...
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The average salary for a technical program manager is $250,000 if you are entering a bigger product-based company...
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What is the role of a Technical Program Manager (TPM)?" A TPM enables tech organizations to achieve their goals...
Solutions Architect’s Handbook: Review & Discount Code (Dec 2024)
This is a review of the second edition of Solutions Architect’s Handbook, published by Packt and authored by Saurabh...
TPM’s System Design Repository
Over the years, I have bookmarked interesting system design resources I have come across. And now I have built it as a...
Your Guide to Technical Program Manager Resume (2025 Checklist)
After several TPM hiring drives and having hired and built large TPM teams where I have had to review several...
What is Chief of Staff in Tech and The Role of CoS
Over the last year and a half, I have been fortunate enough to serve as the ‘Chief of Staff’ (CoS) for a large...
Single Threaded Leader at Amazon
I was talking to a friend who is working at Amazon a few years ago, and he was telling me that he recently took up the...
Role Of A Technical Product Manager
The Product Manager - Technical (PMT) is a relatively newer role. The PMT role originated in 2016 at Amazon. We now...
Core Technical Program Management Skills
The role of a TPM demands that a TPM possesses a variety of skills. Although the core skills of a TPM…
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Over the past decade, the role of a Technical Program Manager has become very important to grow and scale...
How To Influence Without Authority As A TPM
As TPMs, use the authority that comes with our role. At other times, we indirectly use the authority…
Day in the Life of a Technical Program Manager (TPM)
One of the most frequently asked questions I get asked is, "Can you describe a day in the life of a TPM?". This...
Take It To The Next Level As A TPM
This post is going to focus on a couple of methodologies and thought process on how to “Take It To The Next Level As A...
TPM Job Preparation Kit – A Definitive Repository Of Everything TPM
Over the past years, I have bookmarked interesting TPM resources I came across. And now we have built it as a central...
Understanding Recommendation Systems: Using Various Filtering Techniques
Every B2C website or app that we use today from Amazon, LinkedIn, Facebook, Netflix, Instagram uses some form of...
Key Reasons Why Move To The Cloud
The fundamental reason to move to an Agile development model was to get new features and products to the customer's...
Technical Program Management Training Courses
Technical Program Management Training Courses - Amazon, Google, Microsoft Since I started this blog 4 years ago and...
Building Resilient Microservices – A Guide for TPMs
As Technical Program Managers, we are often tasked with leading teams in Building Resilient Microservices. This post...
Technical Program Managers vs Product Managers vs Product Managers – Technical vs Engineering Managers
In this post we are going to talk about the differences between Technical Program Managers vs Product Managers vs...
Microservices – Architecture, Advantages and Disadvantages
Microservices is the new buzz word. It refers to smaller and more manageable services that serves a specific use case....
Your First 60 Days As A Technical Program Manager !
With quite the number of folks changing careers, starting off as TPMs, and even seasoned TPMs moving teams I thought...
Understanding Scaled Agile Framework – SAFe
What is Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Scaled Agile Framework SAFe A proven, publicly available framework for applying...
What is Kafka – All You Need to Know About Kafka and Kafka Cluster
Kafka is a distributed, partitioned,high-throughput, low-latency platform. It provides a similar functionality of a...
What is NoSQL? Why NoSQL & Types of NoSQL Database
Over the last decade there has been an explosion of users we probably had 1000 users per day hitting high-traffic...
A True Agile Implementation?
Are there teams you have worked in that follow a flavor of an Agile implementation be it Scrum or TTD or Kanban to the...
User Experience Maturity Models
A customer's user experience cannot be understated. All successful B2C products try to ensure that the user experience...
Content Delivery Network – How it Works and What are its Benefits
Content Delivery Network - CDN primary goal is to deliver data to the end-user with high availability and high...
Emotional Intelligence (EQ) in Teams – Why is EQ in Teams Important
My previous post was about the components of Emotional Intelligence (EQ) and their key indicators. To reiterate the 5...
Why Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is Important
INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE (IaC) I believe as TPMs we often are the guiding compass for our teams. We should always be...
Embracing and Leading Change As A TPM
When you talk to entrepreneurs or startups and organizations that are successful they all have one thing in common....
Amazon Program Manager & Technical Program Manager (TPM) Salary
This blog is an analysis of the Amazon program manager(PM) & Technical Program Manager (TPM) salaries from various...
Emotional Intelligence For Managers – Technical Program Managers and Product Managers
Emotional Intelligence has been around since 1964 but has gained significantly more popularity in the last 15 years....
Microsoft Program Manager Interview: With Alessandro Catorcini – Part II
Technical Program Manager Interview: With Alessandro Catorcini A fabulous interview with Alessandro Catorcini! He has...
Cloud Computing for Managers – (TPM’s, PM’s, SDM’s)
Cloud Computing for Managers - (TPMs, PMs, SDMs) Over the last couple of years, there has been a need for managers...
Depth vs Breadth vs SWAT Technical Program Managers
Depth vs Breadth vs SWAT Technical Program Managers. At all my previous roles I have been working as an embedded TPM....
A New Kind of Program Manager
A New Kind of Program Manager. A new role emerges at organizations where technology is at the core of products. As...
The Pursuit of Happiness – For TPMs
No matter where you are or what you do, at the end of the day, all of us are travelers in the journey of life inching...
Technical Program Manager Career Path
The Technical Program Manager Career Path and growth is one of the most often asked questions. In this post, I will go...
HTTP vs HTTPS – Similarities and Differences
In back to the basics for TPMs, we will go over the differences between HTTP vs HTTPS. We will understand HTTP &...
The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
"The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results" This book is a quick and fantastic read....
Mute Mapping: For a Dysfunctional Scrum team !
Mute mapping is a variant of affinity mapping where no one speaks! Does that not sound interesting? This really helps...
Technical Program Manager (TPM) Salary Analysis – Seattle, 2017
"The Technical Program Manager (TPM) Salary - Revised Analysis". It is a revised analysis because 2 years ago I...
AWS Solution Architect Certification & How I Aced it..
I recently passed the AWS Solution Architect - Associate Certification and decided to give you a quick run down of the...
Technical Program Manager – Mentoring & Interview Preparation Guidance 🙂
Begin the journey of a lifetime to finding the right opportunity to become a great technical program manager with some...
Networking Protocols & TCP/IP
This post is to cover some of the most basic things you need to know about Networking Protocols & TCP/IP in your...
Docker
Docker Containers What are docker containers? Docker is a platform for developing, shipping, running applications...
Mesh Networks – The Next Big Thing?
Mesh Networks are best described as a redundant Network in which every user or node connected to the network aids in...
Application Resource Utilization
More of a continuation from my previous post on Capacity Planning. The Application Resource Utilization primarily...
IT Capacity Planning For Backend Applications
IT capacity planning for this post primarily focuses on estimating, infrastructure-related tasks that need to be...
Salary Analysis of Senior Program Managers in Seattle
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Demystifying The Roles & Responsibilities of Program Managers
This post is about the various roles and responsibilities that are most commonly used in the Project Management world...
Graph Database
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Continuous Integration – True Agility For Software Development
Continuous delivery is the implementation of the developing, compiling, deploying, testing, and releasing software in...
Certifications – To do or not to do
The sheer number of certifications one can do is infinite. Companies like Microsoft and Oracle alone have more than...
Agile vs Waterfall – The similarities !
A quick recap of the Agile Manifesto Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over...
The Art of Networking
Networking is an important aspect of any professionals life. There are several advantages in meeting and knowing more...
OAuth 2 – The Fundamentals and Entities in an O-Auth Flow
What is OAuth 2.0? If you are a frequent app user using new apps you most likely have used OAuth 2. OAuth provides an...
Lunch Interviews – The Interview Scene.. (In Seattle)
The Interview Scene - is changing in Seattle and in other cities as well....
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