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A Project Manager’s Best Friend: The Technical ...

Sparkbox
April 21, 2020

A Project Manager’s Best Friend: The Technical Lead

Several factors can make or break a project. Sparkbox project manager Austin shares one of the most important contributions to a successful project: the technical lead. She presents how they impact the technical vision, empower other team members, and add value to everyone. Austin shares three tips on how to nurture a healthy, productive PM-tech lead relationship and why everyone, not just PMs, should be talking more about incorporating this role into their technical projects.

Sparkbox

April 21, 2020
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  1. Project Composition Dev 1 Dev 2 Dev 3 PM Designer

    Tech Lead Tech Director ✨Project Awesome✨
  2. Communication shares the technical vision and expectations communicates limitations and

    complexities identifies risks and surfaces ideas for how to mitigate them
  3. Technical Skill go-to expert in at least one area of

    the codebase build a tech architecture with the appropriate tech stack and delivery pipeline find and build seams in the architecture
  4. Why PMs Need A Tech Lead another individual with a

    heightened sense of ownership for the project level-up team’s technical skills elevate projects to the next level