Technical Project Management Essentials: Skills That Actually Work
Stop drowning in competing priorities and endless planning debates. This comprehensive video series teaches you the practical skills that make technical project management actually work—regardless of whether your team uses Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, or "we just have a board and ship stuff."
What You'll Learn
- Requirements That Work - Write requirements that enable collaboration, not just document work
- Breaking Down Work - Master splitting techniques that reduce risk and accelerate delivery
- Prioritization Without Drama - Use rational ordering to eliminate political battles
- Quality Gates - Build Definition of Done and acceptance criteria that prevent technical debt
- Team Practices - Run effective planning meetings and manage dependencies
- Forecasting with Data - Replace story point debates with throughput measurement
Why This Series Is Different
This isn't another methodology course selling you on Scrum vs. Kanban. These are transferable skills that work on any team, with any process. The focus is on practical techniques you can apply immediately—whether you're a PM, product owner, tech lead, or scrum master.
Core Thesis: The requirements list isn't the work. The requirements list is the conversation about the work made visible.
Perfect For
- Technical Project Managers managing feature delivery
- Product Managers/Owners prioritizing technical work
- Engineering Managers and Tech Leads running planning
- Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches improving team practices
- Anyone who runs planning meetings or manages technical priorities
Complete Video Series
Technical Project Management: Quick Start — The Five Essentials
Duration: 14:07 | Published: November 26, 2025
Drowning in project chaos? Before we go deeper into any topic, here's your survival kit. The five things you absolutely need to have in place before anything else matters. If you only watch two videos in this series, make it this one and the first one.
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Technical Project Management #1: Why Your Project List Is Making Everyone Miserable
Duration: 9:35 | Published: November 25, 2025
Everyone is drowning. Every team I work with is being asked to deliver more than they possibly have time to do. And when I dig into why things feel so chaotic, it usually comes down to three enemies — three patterns that make everything harder than it needs to be.
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Technical Project Management #2: Your Requirements List Is a Negotiating Tool
Duration: 10:26 | Published: November 25, 2025
Your requirements list isn't a to-do list — it's the conversation about the work, made visible. This video shows you how to transform stakeholder demands from confrontations into trade-off conversations.
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Technical Project Management #3: Requirements Should Tell a Story
Duration: 9:34 | Published: November 25, 2025
If your requirements list is full of technical gibberish that only developers understand, you're missing out on the collaboration and trust-building that makes everything else work. This video explains why story-shaped requirements beat technical task lists every time.
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Technical Project Management #4: Technical Gibberish vs. Human-Readable Requirements
Duration: 9:25 | Published: November 25, 2025
Let's get practical. This video walks through real before-and-after examples — technical gibberish transformed into human-readable requirements. Once you see the pattern, you can apply it to your own list.
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Technical Project Management #5: Why Small Requirements Win
Duration: 10:02 | Published: November 25, 2025
Most teams' requirements are way too big, and it's causing problems they don't even realize. This video gives you seven distinct reasons why small requirements beat big ones — and how to know when something's small enough.
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Technical Project Management #6: Features vs. Requirements vs. Things That Never End
Duration: 10:04 | Published: December 03, 2025
Before you build elaborate hierarchies of epics, features, and stories, let me save you some pain: most of the time, you don't need all that structure. This video shows you when hierarchy helps — and when it just gets in the way.
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Technical Project Management #7: "This Can't Be Split Any Further" (Yes It Can)
Duration: 12:50 | Published: December 03, 2025
"This can't be split any further." I hear this in every refinement session. And sometimes it's true. But usually? It's not. This video gives you six diagnostic questions to unlock requirements that seem unsplittable — plus some controversial advice about spikes.
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Based on 25+ years of technical project management across startups, enterprises, and everything in between. Learn the skills that actually matter.