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.
Dependencies Across Eight Engineering Teams
Lessons from running the Einstein AI portfolio at Salesforce across eight research and engineering teams on different clocks.
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.
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.
Compliance PM Playbook
How to build a regulatory issue lifecycle framework that sticks, from triage to CCO reporting to 96%+ on-time closure.
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.
Building Escalation Paths With Teeth
An escalation path nobody fears is decoration. Here is how to design one teams actually respond to.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Advisory & Consulting
Available for TPM Advisory Engagements
Beyond full-time roles, I take selective advisory engagements where a senior technical program manager can accelerate a specific outcome: standing up a compliance framework, unblocking an AI adoption initiative, or restructuring a growth program that has stalled.
If your team needs an experienced enterprise program manager for a defined problem, get in touch.
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