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A TPM’s Field Guide to Annual Roadmap Planning
December 02, 2025
November 11, 2025
Your Prioritization Framework Is Just Fine
November 04, 2025
📽️TPM Course: Foundations Of Technical Program Management
October 28, 2025
The One AI Question Every TPM Interview Must Ask — and Answer
October 24, 2025
An Opportunity to Re-Invent Technical Program Management
October 15, 2025
🔐 TPM Microguide: Skills That Will Matter for TPM To Be AI Ready
September 29, 2025
🔐 How TPMs Can AI - Preparing for Complicated Discussions and Meetings
September 16, 2025
The Coming Challenges for TPM Leaders in the Age of AI
September 05, 2025
How to Win at Building AI Products
August 26, 2025
🔐 How TPMs Can AI - Launch Readiness Checklist
August 15, 2025
🔐 New Series - How TPMs Can AI
August 09, 2025
How I Keep Up With AI (Without Losing My Mind)
July 17, 2025
Rethinking Ownership in the New Normal of AI Work
July 11, 2025
🔐 TPM Microguide: Getting Started With AI Tools For TPM
July 03, 2025
AI Agents Are The New Flying Cars
June 24, 2025
Defining An AI Native Technical Program Manager
June 19, 2025
Troubleshooting As A TPM In An AI Future
June 13, 2025
How Do TPMs Drive Accountability When AI Owns the Work?
June 05, 2025
When the Inputs Start to Disappear
May 13, 2025
How To Be "Strategic" As A TPM
April 18, 2025
April 01, 2025
March 25, 2025
🔐 TPM Microguide On Release Management v1.0
March 18, 2025
Building Privacy and Security Engineering Teams
March 03, 2025
What is Red Teaming and Pen-testing?
February 24, 2025
How TPMs Can Cultivate a Privacy-First Mindset for Lasting Impact
February 17, 2025
🔐 TPM Microguide On Interview Preparation - v1.0
February 11, 2025
How TPM Bridge Communication Gaps Between Tech and Non-Tech Teams
February 10, 2025
TPM Guide To Ticket Intake Management
February 03, 2025
How To Deal With Ambiguity As A TPM
January 27, 2025
January 20, 2025
How TPMs Lose Credibility and What to Avoid
January 14, 2025
January 07, 2025
Why I Stopped Writing In 2024 + I Am Back
January 04, 2025
April 29, 2024
January 31, 2024
Shape of "Trust" - Pt 3: Roads - When Teams Lack Trust
January 13, 2024
365 Days of Being A Newsletter Writer
December 29, 2023
Shape of "Trust" - Pt 2: Pathways and Individuals
November 19, 2023
October 27, 2023
October 21, 2023
I spoke at the first TPM Conference and I left inspired
October 12, 2023
A Thought Partner That Never Sleeps Or Complaints
October 03, 2023
Layers of Alignment / AI makes you productive / Collaborate with Me
September 18, 2023
Poll: What kind of premium content would you like to see?
September 13, 2023
A Dispatch On All Things Tools
September 11, 2023
The Blurred Line Between Methodology and Framework
August 24, 2023
Invite your friends to read Building Romes
June 23, 2023
🔐 The Art and Power of Language
June 17, 2023
Systems Philosopher, Source of Truth, A New TPM Voice
June 06, 2023
June 03, 2023
Ask Aadil - Wrong way to use the TPM function
May 12, 2023
📮Monday TPM Field Dispatch 001
April 24, 2023
April 19, 2023
April 12, 2023
The Right Level of Detail In Project Planning
April 02, 2023
Retrospecting A Life Of A Technical Program Manager
March 25, 2023
The life and nature of a process
March 18, 2023
My first AMA on "Life of a TPM" hosted by Luca Rossi
March 08, 2023
A task management system designed for TPMs by a TPM
February 28, 2023
Avoid these risk communication anti-patterns
February 22, 2023
Why hire Technical Program Managers when we have Product Managers
February 13, 2023
Technical Program Managers don’t implement SCRUM
February 06, 2023
A better mindset towards resource planning
January 29, 2023
BR 2/52: How TPMs Can Implement Change Effectively
January 22, 2023
BR 1/52: Why we really hate meetings
January 17, 2023
Reflecting on 2022 + Looking to 2023
January 05, 2023
BA 52/52: How to manage multiple programs at the same time
December 29, 2022
BA 51/52: The Hard Choice - Should I switch from TPM to PM?
December 23, 2022
December 15, 2022
BA 49/52: Driving Large Scale Backend Projects
December 12, 2022
BA 48/52: The Right Type Of Solution
December 05, 2022
BA 47/52: Working With Designers (A Non-Designers POV)
November 24, 2022
November 21, 2022
November 13, 2022
BA 44/52: The Right Tool, Pt. 2 - Planning
November 06, 2022
BA 43/52: 3 Years As Remote TPM
October 31, 2022
BA 42/52: The Monkey Wrench Called Optimism
October 24, 2022
BA 41/52: The Trouble With Autonomy
October 17, 2022
October 03, 2022
September 25, 2022
BA 37/52: Energy Spend (The Annual Planning Edition)
September 18, 2022
BA 36/52: Leveraging 1-on-1s Effectively
September 10, 2022
BA 35/52: The Tactical Side of Strategy, Vision & Storytelling
September 04, 2022
Building Romes' got 1,000 readers!
August 27, 2022
BA 34/52: The System For Grand Alignment (Status Reports)
August 26, 2022
BA 33/52: Story, Themes, Tentpoles, Features
August 21, 2022
August 13, 2022
BA 31/52: TPM Team Topology, Pt. 3
August 07, 2022
BA 30/52: TPM Team Topology - Pt. 2
July 31, 2022
BA 29/52: TPM Team Topology - Pt. 1
July 24, 2022
BA 28/52: Building Consensus in Engineering Teams
July 17, 2022
BA 27B/52: Conviction and Consensus
July 10, 2022
BA 27A/52: Working with Difficult Engineering Managers
July 08, 2022
BA 26/52: In Pursuit of the Perfect Project Plan
July 03, 2022
BA 25/52: A Rorschach Test Or Why We Love to Hate JIRA
June 27, 2022
BA 24/52: The #NoEstimates Rebellion, A TPMs POV
June 19, 2022
BA (23/52): Apple’s Contrarian Approach to Convergence
June 07, 2022
May 24, 2022
BA (20/52): Signs of TPM Burnout
May 18, 2022
BA (19/52): Systems, Truths, Shipping Software
May 12, 2022
BA (18/52): Systems and Overhead
May 04, 2022
BA (16/52): How to get engineers to write design docs
April 19, 2022
BA (13/52): Content vs Process
March 29, 2022
March 22, 2022
Beyond Agile (10/52): The Checklist Mindset
March 08, 2022
Beyond Agile (8/52): The Socratic Method for Engineers, TPMs, PMs
February 24, 2022
Beyond Agile (7/52): How to build great processes
February 20, 2022
Beyond Agile (6/52): System of Systems
February 13, 2022
Beyond Agile (4/52): Beware of the Absolutes
January 30, 2022
Beyond Agile (2/52): Thinking About Project Risks
January 16, 2022
Beyond Agile (1/52): Importance of Storytelling
January 09, 2022
Why Hire Technical Program Managers
October 12, 2021
👩🏽💻What is Technical Program Management?
July 28, 2021
🙉 When Broken Becomes Normal Or All About Change
July 14, 2021
May 17, 2021
May 10, 2021
How to create great project plans
April 24, 2021
Resolving Engineering Disagreements
January 19, 2021
By The Readers Issue # 105 - Challenges of Building in BigTech
December 30, 2020
By The Readers Issue # 103 - The Sprint Plan - 2, 6, or 8
December 15, 2020
Lessons On Evaluating Engineering Team Performance
November 24, 2020
How To Stay Flat Like Apple and Innovate
November 10, 2020
November 03, 2020
Monthly Digest - Here Is Everything You Missed In October
November 01, 2020
Lessons on Effective Release Planning From Apple and Google
October 27, 2020
BRS-005: In times of Uncertainty
August 28, 2020
BRS-004: In the News This Week
August 22, 2020
Career Guide: The Future of Program Management Post-COVID
August 16, 2020
BRS-003: A Tale of Two Cultures
August 11, 2020
Career Guide: Every Leader Needs This Quality
August 01, 2020
BRS-002: The Hedgehog, The Fox, The Engineering Mindset
July 24, 2020