Delivering through leadership
As a TPM, you are a leader in your organization. You effect change through your programs and projects, but also as a contributor to the technical direction and strategies of your team. You identify problems but you also resolve them. Here are the ways in which your technical toolset helps you deliver through leadership.
As a leader, you will be expected to define the direction of your team. This expectation grows the higher up you go as a TPM. To do this, you are expected to find issues and define and drive solutions to fix them. This can be a difficult move for some who prefer to work within the bounds of a specific problem. However, defining a problem and solution within the confines of a project is similar to the confines of a team or organization. Just as a project has a goal, a team or organization has a charter. The most reliable way to find a problem worth fixing is to look at repeatable efforts across projects and recurring pain points during...
