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.

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1. Austin Munhofen
   A Project Manager’s Best
   Friend: The Technical Lead
   

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2. Think About It
   

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4. The Technical Lead
   

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5. Project Composition
   Dev 1
   Dev 2
   Dev 3
   PM
   Designer
   Tech
   Lead
   Tech
   Director
   ✨Project Awesome✨
   

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6. What Is A Tech Lead?
   

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7. Leadership
   

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8. Communication
   Leadership
   

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9. Communication
   Leadership
   Technical Skill
   

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10. Communication
    Leadership
    Technical Skill
    Impact
    

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11. Leadership
    

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12. https://seesparkbox.com/what-we-do
    Discoveries
    https://seesparkbox.com/foundry/category/discovery_efforts
    

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13. Leadership
    sets technical architecture
    carries out the project with important
    historical decision-making knowledge
    

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14. Communication
    shares the technical vision and
    expectations
    communicates limitations and
    complexities
    identifies risks and surfaces ideas for
    how to mitigate them
    

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15. 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
    

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16. Impact
    sharpen others’ technical skills
    through leadership, they encourage
    cultivation of fluency, humility, and
    empathy
    

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17. Why PMs Need

    A Tech Lead
    

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18. 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
    

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19. Paving The Way For The Most
    Beneficial Tech Lead-Project
    Manager Partnership
    

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20. Trust
    

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21. Trust
    Vulnerable Conversations
    

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22. Trust
    Vulnerable Conversations
    Clarity of Expectations
    

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23. The Value Of A Tech Lead
    

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