She ran four major programs in two years. Mentored two junior TPMs. Drove alignment on a company-wide initiative that leadership cited in the all-hands. She got denied. "Leadership was being conservative with new headcount titles." The silence after that denial is where this story starts because it happens
A TPM I know tracked her time for a month. She wanted to understand why she never had time to do the actual work of program management; tracking dependencies, following up on blockers, keeping stakeholders aligned outside of meetings. The answer: she was in meetings for roughly 78% of her
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