Finding clarity in the technical landscape
As a TPM, you are often aware of many programs and projects that impact your team or organization. You work with other TPMs, other teams, and leaders to deliver your goals. This gives you both a deep knowledge of where you directly run your projects, as well as breadth in the technical landscape surrounding you.
In a technical setting, we use this depth and breadth to our advantage as we have the ability to look at each problem from a different vantage point, all the way from the street level to the full cityscape. These varying vantage points allow us to connect the dots across projects and programs. Let’s look at a few examples of seeking clarity and connecting the dots in a technical setting.
Let’s explore a technical breadth example. As is often the case, people working on the implementation of a project are highly focused on the project goals. While this is desirable as it ensures a solid solution to the problem...
