http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2005/04/i-need-a-technical-project-manager.html Management, especially good management, is hard to do. This blog is for people who want to think about how they manage people, projects, and risk. Fri, 18 May 2012 15:02:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2005/04/i-need-a-technical-project-manager.html/comment-page-1#comment-103 Skip Fri, 15 Apr 2005 20:15:04 +0000 http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/?p=8167#comment-103 Since is it usually difficult to find both good managers with the soft skills that are also highly technical, we handle this problem a different way. We have one of the senior technical people on the team play the "Technical Lead" role. As part of this role, it is their responsibility to maintain the technical architecture, and to bring to management and the PM things that can effective the project objective (cost, schedule, scope, quality) from a technical perspective. We have found it to be quite effective, and allows us to get the best managers possible even if they don't have a technical background. Since is it usually difficult to find both good managers with the soft skills that are also highly technical, we handle this problem a different way.
We have one of the senior technical people on the team play the “Technical Lead” role. As part of this role, it is their responsibility to maintain the technical architecture, and to bring to management and the PM things that can effective the project objective (cost, schedule, scope, quality) from a technical perspective.
We have found it to be quite effective, and allows us to get the best managers possible even if they don’t have a technical background.

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