Breaking Into Technical Project Management
The event was sponsored by: Thinkful Speaker Series
The webinar took place on November 19th, 2020 from 8 pm – 10 pm. The speaker for the event was Wayne McClure, Senior Data Analytics Engineer at Nielsen. Mr. McClure talked about how every complex ideas needs someone to mold it out. Technological role are like salads, it’s all mixed up together. Data scientists, Analysts, Programmers and Project Managers all work together to finish up a project. He also talked about where Technical Project Management (TPM) stands in an organization. According to Mr. McClure, it varies from organization to organization because you’ll most probably meet people from the Technology side more than Business side. In these organizations, the Technical aspect is harder than the people aspect of the job. In order to be successful as a project manager, you need to learn how to schedule a plan for the project and let your team handle it. You need to trust the process you planned out and specially your team members.