Summary
In this chapter, we discussed how your technical toolset can help enhance your project management by examining the key management areas of planning, risk management, and stakeholder management and communication. We looked at each of these in terms of driving clarity, resolving conflicts, and delivering through leadership.
Across all aspects of project management, a TPM’s technical toolset allows for quicker, more efficient execution by providing foundational context and knowledge in the problem space. The toolset also enhances the TPM’s leadership by effecting change in the technical direction of their organization.
A TPM is both a PM and a technical expert, and they are greater than the sum of their parts, as the old saying goes. It is the joining of the project and program management skills with technical acumen that acts as a force multiplier and allows the TPM to do their job better than a subject matter expert or a PM alone.
