Technical Program Management in Seattle & beyond
A senior technical lead turns ambiguous goals into a sequenced plan and keeps stakeholders aligned, without ceremony for ceremony's sake.
Most software projects don't fail technically. They fail because nobody owned the timeline, the dependencies, or the awkward conversation in week six. We own all three: build the plan, run the rituals, and surface the bad news early enough to do something about it.
We're allergic to process for its own sake. The cadence we set up is the lightest one that still keeps your stakeholders informed and your engineers shipping.
When does a project need technical program management?
When more than one team, vendor, or system has to land in the same place at the same time. A single product team with a good lead doesn't need us. A replatform involving your agency, your internal engineers, a data-migration vendor, and a hard marketing deadline does, because the usual failure is in the seams between teams that nobody owns.
We take ownership of the seams: dependency mapping, decision logs, risk burndown, and the uncomfortable status reporting that keeps surprises out of month three.
What's included
- Discovery & roadmap workshops
- Sprint planning & rituals
- Vendor & stakeholder coordination
- Risk & dependency tracking
Ideal for
- Multi-vendor builds that need a single accountable PM
- Internal teams scaling past the point one founder can hold it all
- Replatforming or migration projects with hard cutover dates
- Compliance / audit-driven initiatives with regulatory deadlines
How we work
- 1
Frame the goal
We translate fuzzy outcomes into a measurable definition of done, and write it down where everyone can see it.
- 2
Build the plan
Sequence the work, identify the critical path, and call out the dependencies and risks now, not later.
- 3
Run the cadence
Light-touch rituals, transparent status, and the discipline to say no to scope creep that doesn't earn its place.
- 4
Land the launch
Pre-launch checklist, dry runs, comms plan, and a clear post-launch ownership handoff.
What you'll get
- Roadmap with sequenced milestones and a critical path
- Sprint cadence: planning, demo, and retro, running by week two
- Risk & dependency register, updated weekly
- Stakeholder status reports tuned to the audience
- Launch readiness checklist and go/no-go criteria
FAQ
- Can you PM a project we're building in-house?
- Yes. We can run delivery while your engineers stay focused on the code.
- What tools do you use?
- Yours, ideally. We adapt to your stack, whether that's Linear, Jira, GitHub, Notion, or Asana.
- How is this different from a generalist PM?
- It's led by a working engineer: nearly eight years at Amazon, then leading SRE at Classmates. That means reading a PR, pushing back on a tech estimate, and translating between business and engineering without losing either side.
Have a project in mind?Let's build something real.
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