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Technical Program Manager's Handbook

You're reading from  Technical Program Manager's Handbook

Product type Book
Published in Dec 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804613559
Pages 214 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Joshua Alan Teter Joshua Alan Teter
Profile icon Joshua Alan Teter

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: What is a Technical Program Manager?
2. Chapter 1: Fundamentals of a Technical Program Manager 3. Chapter 2: Pillars of a Technical Program Manager 4. Part 2: Fundamentals of Program Management
5. Chapter 3: Introduction to Program Management 6. Chapter 4: Driving Toward Clarity 7. Chapter 5: Plan Management 8. Chapter 6: Risk Management 9. Chapter 7: Stakeholder Management 10. Chapter 8: Managing a Program 11. Chapter 9: Career Paths 12. Part 3: Technical Toolset
13. Chapter 10: The Technical Toolset 14. Chapter 11: Code Development Expectations 15. Chapter 12: System Design and Architecture Landscape 16. Chapter 13: Enhancing Management Using Your Technical Toolset 17. Index 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using clarity in key management areas

There are many ways in which driving toward clarity has an impact on project or program execution. We’ll discuss the key management areas to demonstrate how seeking clarity is utilized.

Planning

Let’s take the original problem statement that was the basis of our case study as an example for driving thought into plans. In the original iteration of the application on Windows, I had a problem I was trying to solve – I wanted to talk with my colleagues via a chat client but didn’t have the resources or permission for a centralized server. I took the problem statement and looked for solutions that fit the need for no central server and landed on a P2P network. From this initial solution, I then dove into high-level designs, low-level designs, and then implementation. In every step here, there was some level of ambiguity that needed to be clarified to proceed. I didn’t have stakeholders to convince, nor a development...

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