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The Technical Program Manager's Guide: Navigating the Path to Success
Welcome to the 2nd Edition of The Technical Program Manager's Navigating the Path to Success!
This comprehensive resource is your trusted companion on the journey to becoming an effective TPM. With real-world examples and insights, it covers all aspects of the role, empowering you to navigate challenges, optimize processes, and lead high-performing teams.
What's In this updated edition, I've incorporated a wealth of fresh content on agile methodologies, program management strategies, and system design principles.
Why You Should Dive The book is meticulously designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills essential for excelling as a Technical Program Manager.
Here's a Glimpse of What Awaits Curious about the contents? Here's a sneak peek of what you'll find in this
Introduction and
• Begin with a foundational understanding of TPM and its role in the technology landscape.
• Explore the various roles within a tech organization to grasp where TPM fits in.
• Assess your readiness and set learning goals for your TPM journey.
Qualities, Roles, and Career
• Discover the key qualities that make a successful Program Manager.
• Gain insight into a day in the life of a TPM.
• Differentiate between TPM and Product Management career paths.
• Chart your career growth and create a tailored career development plan.
TPM
• Dive deep into the specific responsibilities of a Technical Program Manager.
• Begin your TPM learning journey with essential insights and tips.
• Cultivate a growth mindset and learning habits.
• Master project management basics, methodologies, and Agile practices.
• Understand how to use Scrum, Kanban, and Agile Roadmapping effectively.
• Learn to leverage tools like JIRA and Confluence, and explore the SAFe Agile framework.
• Discover the importance of networking, prioritization, effective meetings, and communication management.
• Develop skills in stakeholder management, governance, soft skills, software development concepts, and cloud basics.
• Explore the balance between technical knowledge and program management skills.
• Hone your negotiation skills and learn how to build feature backlogs for Product TPMs.
• Gain insights into working with remote and distributed teams and understand metrics and KPIs for program success.
Advanced TPM
• Explore program management processes for both large corporations and startups.
• Learn how to scale programs to accommodate growth.
• Master the art of technical documentation and building high-performing tech teams.
• Discover strategies for motivating and engaging teams and overcoming challenges in program management.
• Understand the importance of a Product Manager's vision and risk management.
• Explore the HEART framework of program management and juggling multiple programs.
• Learn how to keep your skills current and gain relevant experience for a transition to TPM.
• Explore cloud migration and security, and discover 20 best practices to follow.
• Gain valuable insights into the interview process and common interview questions for TPM roles.
This comprehensive resource is your trusted companion on the journey to becoming an effective TPM. With real-world examples and insights, it covers all aspects of the role, empowering you to navigate challenges, optimize processes, and lead high-performing teams.
What's In this updated edition, I've incorporated a wealth of fresh content on agile methodologies, program management strategies, and system design principles.
Why You Should Dive The book is meticulously designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills essential for excelling as a Technical Program Manager.
Here's a Glimpse of What Awaits Curious about the contents? Here's a sneak peek of what you'll find in this
Introduction and
• Begin with a foundational understanding of TPM and its role in the technology landscape.
• Explore the various roles within a tech organization to grasp where TPM fits in.
• Assess your readiness and set learning goals for your TPM journey.
Qualities, Roles, and Career
• Discover the key qualities that make a successful Program Manager.
• Gain insight into a day in the life of a TPM.
• Differentiate between TPM and Product Management career paths.
• Chart your career growth and create a tailored career development plan.
TPM
• Dive deep into the specific responsibilities of a Technical Program Manager.
• Begin your TPM learning journey with essential insights and tips.
• Cultivate a growth mindset and learning habits.
• Master project management basics, methodologies, and Agile practices.
• Understand how to use Scrum, Kanban, and Agile Roadmapping effectively.
• Learn to leverage tools like JIRA and Confluence, and explore the SAFe Agile framework.
• Discover the importance of networking, prioritization, effective meetings, and communication management.
• Develop skills in stakeholder management, governance, soft skills, software development concepts, and cloud basics.
• Explore the balance between technical knowledge and program management skills.
• Hone your negotiation skills and learn how to build feature backlogs for Product TPMs.
• Gain insights into working with remote and distributed teams and understand metrics and KPIs for program success.
Advanced TPM
• Explore program management processes for both large corporations and startups.
• Learn how to scale programs to accommodate growth.
• Master the art of technical documentation and building high-performing tech teams.
• Discover strategies for motivating and engaging teams and overcoming challenges in program management.
• Understand the importance of a Product Manager's vision and risk management.
• Explore the HEART framework of program management and juggling multiple programs.
• Learn how to keep your skills current and gain relevant experience for a transition to TPM.
• Explore cloud migration and security, and discover 20 best practices to follow.
• Gain valuable insights into the interview process and common interview questions for TPM roles.
449 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 22, 2023
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About the author
Arpit Agrawal
16 books70 followersAs a fictional character in books, Arpit is not a tall-dark-handsome, he lives a simple life, crosses the road checking both the sides, orders Mix-Veg and asks for complementary salad in restaurants, asks people for the address in spite of having a smart-phone.
Born in a small town of Orissa (19th April,1989) and brought up in another small town near Raipur, Chhattisgarh, Arpit has spent one-third of his life living a mediocre life. (which he still continues...)
Sent by his parents, in his four years of exile (also called ‘Engineering’), he studied Mechanical related stuff in a classroom deficient in ‘XX’ chromosomes but ended up working in an IT firm in Pune.
Like Peter Parker turned Spider-Man out of the blue, Arpit also became a writer all of a sudden after a writer-bug bite him when he was sleeping on the last bench of his class.
By the third year of Engineering, he had never read even a single book out of his curriculum, but then 'Chetan Bhagat' and 'Shidney Sheldon' entered his life and he realized he has to go very far in fiction.
After cultivating his ideas for a few hundred days, Arpit wrote his debut novel ‘Dear life, Get well soon. And then his second book - 'Take my heart, forever...'
Born in a small town of Orissa (19th April,1989) and brought up in another small town near Raipur, Chhattisgarh, Arpit has spent one-third of his life living a mediocre life. (which he still continues...)
Sent by his parents, in his four years of exile (also called ‘Engineering’), he studied Mechanical related stuff in a classroom deficient in ‘XX’ chromosomes but ended up working in an IT firm in Pune.
Like Peter Parker turned Spider-Man out of the blue, Arpit also became a writer all of a sudden after a writer-bug bite him when he was sleeping on the last bench of his class.
By the third year of Engineering, he had never read even a single book out of his curriculum, but then 'Chetan Bhagat' and 'Shidney Sheldon' entered his life and he realized he has to go very far in fiction.
After cultivating his ideas for a few hundred days, Arpit wrote his debut novel ‘Dear life, Get well soon. And then his second book - 'Take my heart, forever...'
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April 28, 2025
A great intro guide to technical program managing. I like how the book was structured, that it included strategies to being a good TPM, the approaches and tools to read up on, certs to research, how to tailor your resume, interview prep questions, and more. The book was definitely more tech/SW code tailored than hardware so some chapters I ended up skipping. But overall a great reference guide on how TPMs work!
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