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How do you measure success of a TPM? A product launch our a successful program run does not seem to the right way to measure.

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Technical Product Management
  1. Vasanth Arunachalam
    Vasanth Arunachalam

    Meta Director, Technical Program Management | Formerly Microsoft • 4y

    I love this question because it flips one of the previous questions to focus more on the individual. IMO the success of a Technical Product/Program Manager largely lies in the ‘What’ and the ‘How’. What impact did they have? This individual measure of success should be tied to the business (product or platform) goals. The TPM should directly be held accountable for delivering on those goals. This is also the (relatively) easy part to measure (Eg: How many new users signed up for the app?, How mu ...Read More

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  2. Devika Nair
    Devika Nair

    Oracle Director of Product Management • 3y

    To me, success of my product managers is measured based on their understanding of the product, ability to deal with partners, customers and executives and influence others. The way I would measure the same is based on their vision and roadmap documents. The product intuition can be judged from these artifacts and the execution can be seen through their interactions with team members, partners and customers. Most of the aforementioned are hard to determine or judge. An easier way to look at how t ...Read More

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