Gain insights into the TPgM role with best practices, frameworks, and essential skills. Learn about technical breadth, leadership, and career paths while improving hands-on program management performance.

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This is a practical guide for the technical program manager (TPgM) role. This course provides best practices and frameworks for job performance improvement, and is suitable for aspiring TPgMs looking to improve their skills.

This course outlines the role of a TPgM and how it varies with company size. You’ll learn the technical program management process, covering its main foundations; such as trust, program management, technical breadth, and leadership; and how essential they are to a program’s success. Each foundational skill is explained in detail, focusing on the program management lifecycle. The course concludes by presenting a career ladder for technical program managers.

After completing this course, you’ll improve your craft as a TPgM through hands-on practice rather than just theoretical knowledge. You’ll also come to understand how a career in technical program management can provide a sense of fulfillment by seeing the positive impact of your projects on the world.

Technical Program Management: A Practitioner's Guide

To be a successful technical program manager, you must possess excellent negotiation skills to communicate and work effectively with stakeholders, including executives, product managers, engineering teams, and other departments involved in the program. 

Negotiation is the process of finding common ground between parties with different needs, goals, and perspectives. This requires empathy, active listening, and the ability to communicate clearly and concisely.

Let’s look at the importance of possessing negotiation skills as a TPgM.

Before Getting Started

Introduction to the Technical Program Manager

Foundation I: Trust

Foundation II: Program Management Baseline

Foundation II: Program Initiation

Foundation II: Program Planning

Foundation II: Program Execution

Foundations II: Program Evaluation

Foundations II: Program Closure

Foundations II: Program Discovery

Foundations III: Technical

Foundations IV: Leadership

Career Planning & Final Thoughts

Negotiation

Negotiating with stakeholders