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Practice a Technical Program Manager workday

Align engineering and product to ship on time — without writing a single line of code. Spend 30–60 minutes inside a realistic technical program manager simulation — Slack threads, tickets, code review, and a hidden challenge that mirrors what actually happens on the job.

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What a Technical Program Manager workday looks like

9:00 AM

Sprint kickoff

Morning standup — Marcus drops a bombshell about the Platform team dependency. Get the facts before panic spreads.

10:30 AM

Dependency audit

Map every cross-team dependency in the sprint. Find what has a ticket and what is just a Slack message.

1:00 PM

Scope conflict

PM wants notifications in v1. Engineering says it's impossible. Someone has to make the call.

3:00 PM

Risk assessment

Document the sprint risk with a concrete recommendation. Ambiguity is not an option before Sophie's board call.

4:30 PM

Exec readout prep

Draft the VP status email: what we are shipping, what we are not, and when notifications v1 will actually ship.

5:30 PM

Adversarial probes

Keep your standards under fire — teammates are pushing scope shortcuts, the CTO is applying pressure, and every decision is being second-guessed. Hold the line on process integrity.

Tickets you'll work on

TPM-12high

Sprint 23: 3 stories have no acceptance criteria — QA blocked

TPM-09high

Platform team notifications backend — no ticket, no owner, no sprint commitment

TPM-07medium

API rate limiting — 1 of 3 devs available, estimate invalidated

Your AI teammates

MK

Marcus K.

Staff Engineer

AP

Aisha Patel

Product Manager

SR

Sophie R.

VP Engineering

What you walk away with

Scorecard

Technical, communication, and collaboration scores plus a letter grade — instantly after the workday ends.

Hiring manager feedback

A written debrief explaining what you did well and what would have raised concerns in a real interview loop.

Verified certificate

Shareable LinkedIn certificate that links back to your scorecard — proof you can perform, not just answer questions.

Behavioral signals

Did you communicate proactively, escalate when needed, prioritize correctly under pressure? All measured.

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