AMA: Meta Director, Technical Program Management, Vasanth Arunachalam on Building a Technical Product Management Team

Building with intent is key. As a first PM or TPM, you are often running a one-person show. You wear multiple hats and you tend to be scrappy, flexing to what the busines...

Expanding the team from 1 to multiple people comes with a set of pitfalls that I’ve learned the hard way. And many other factors such as Org culture, line of business, pr...

For the first part of the question - I stared my career as an Individual contributor IC) and as you know that is all about specific product/platform strategy and top not...

I’ll try to answer this question to the best extent possible because I havent worked at a company that had formal SCRUM master roles. My understanding is that the SCRUM m...

Prioritization is key. I don’t believe in dividing ‘all’ available work across my team. I believe in ensuring my team focuses on the top business priorities and are havin...

“Change is the only constant” is a cliched phrase in the industry but the reality is not far off in many lines of businesses. At Meta we often get to work with the best a...

I talked a lot about evaluating the success of a program, measuring the success of a Technical PM etc in my last AMA on the topic of "Technical Product Management". htt...

I love this question. Typically one does not boot strap their career as a Technical PM, at least not until recently (Some companies including Meta are hiring Technical PM...