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
2. Think About It
4. The Technical Lead
5. Project Composition Dev 1 Dev 2 Dev 3 PM Designer Tech Lead Tech Director ✨Project Awesome✨
6. What Is A Tech Lead?
7. Leadership
8. Communication Leadership
9. Communication Leadership Technical Skill
10. Communication Leadership Technical Skill Impact
11. Leadership
12. https://seesparkbox.com/what-we-do Discoveries https://seesparkbox.com/foundry/category/discovery_efforts
13. Leadership sets technical architecture carries out the project with important historical decision-making knowledge
14. Communication shares the technical vision and expectations communicates limitations and complexities identifies risks and surfaces ideas for how to mitigate them
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
16. Impact sharpen others’ technical skills through leadership, they encourage cultivation of fluency, humility, and empathy
17. Why PMs Need
 A Tech Lead
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
19. Paving The Way For The Most Beneficial Tech Lead-Project Manager Partnership
20. Trust
21. Trust Vulnerable Conversations
22. Trust Vulnerable Conversations Clarity of Expectations
23. The Value Of A Tech Lead