Dylan Thomas presenting slides on stage at the TPM Summit
I presented at the TPM Summit in October 2024. I shared GitHub’s journey building a technical program management (TPM) function from zero in 2020 to well definited and well functioning in mid-2024. Tuckman’s model helps me to put that journey into context: forming, storming, norming, performing. There are some handy diagrams in the slide deck and hopefully the short stories give you a sense of what it’s like to build a team and a discipline within a particular kind of tech company.
The slides are released under a Creative Commons license at https://rebrand.ly/tpm-journey. So if any of the graphics or words can help you have a conversation about building and maturing a TPM organization, please use them with attribution.