TPM Insights

Notes on program management from 19+ years leading enterprise programs at Intuit, Atlassian, Adobe, Salesforce, Roku, and Apple. AI adoption, compliance governance, and growth strategy.

Program Management · April 28, 2026

Dependencies Across Eight Engineering Teams

Lessons from running the Einstein AI portfolio at Salesforce across eight research and engineering teams on different clocks.

Technical Program ManagerSalesforceDependencies
Growth · March 5, 2026

Growth PM in Practice

The mechanics behind scaling a funded account portfolio 4x: what changed, what broke, and what a TPM actually controls in a growth motion.

Growth Program ManagerMonetizationIntuit
Governance · February 17, 2026

Decision Logs: Underrated TPM Tool

Half the meetings on a program re-litigate decisions that were already made. A decision log ends that for almost no cost.

GovernanceDecision RecordsProgram Management
Compliance · February 10, 2026

Compliance PM Playbook

How to build a regulatory issue lifecycle framework that sticks, from triage to CCO reporting to 96%+ on-time closure.

Compliance Program ManagerRegulatory GovernanceIntuit
AI Program Management · January 15, 2026

Enterprise AI Adoption at Scale

What it actually takes to move AI adoption numbers at enterprise scale, from instrumenting telemetry to navigating the politics of feature rollouts.

AI Program ManagementEnterprise TPMAtlassian
Governance · December 9, 2025

Building Escalation Paths With Teeth

An escalation path nobody fears is decoration. Here is how to design one teams actually respond to.

GovernanceEscalationCompliance Program Manager
Communication · October 21, 2025

Status Reports Executives Actually Read

Most status updates are written to cover the writer, not inform the reader. Flip that, and a VP will actually read your update.

CommunicationExecutive ReportingTechnical Program Manager
Program Management · September 2, 2025

My First 30 Days on a New Program

A field guide to the first month on an unfamiliar program: what to map, who to meet, and the trap most people fall into.

Technical Program ManagerOnboardingProgram Management
Program Management · July 15, 2025

PM to TPM: What Actually Changes

Moving from project manager to technical program manager? Scope, skills, and day-to-day work shift more than the title. A practitioner's view.

Technical Program ManagerCareerCareer Transition

Free Tools

A small set of free program management tools that run in your browser with no signup: the RACI Matrix Generator for who owns what, the Program Risk Register for scoring and tracking risk, and the Stakeholder Power/Interest Grid for deciding who to keep close. Each one exports to CSV or print.

For the TPM career path, see the Technical Program Manager salary guide, a set of real TPM interview questions, and a plain-English program management glossary.

Guides

New to the discipline? Start with the complete guide to program management or how to become a technical program manager. Browse the types of programs and projects for migration, launch, compliance, security, and more. For quick role distinctions, see TPM vs project manager and TPM vs product manager.

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