How deeply does Think Like a CTO cover project management?

Details recurring coordination and forecasting responsibilities without prescribing a formal framework.

Project management

Project management is the discipline of planning, coordinating, and controlling work to achieve defined project objectives.

Project management keeps development work aimed at its objectives as circumstances change. A project manager filters incoming information, forecasts where the current path leads, and gives the CTO evidence for corrective decisions. That depends on hearing bad news as well as good news. section 9.1.1

The work includes:

Tracking each person’s output and identifying milestones and deliverables. section 9.1.1
Improving deadline estimates as new information arrives, with realistic allowances for working time and returning from vacation. section 9.1.1
Coordinating releases and handoffs, communicating with internal and external teams, and reporting items at risk of being overlooked. section 9.1.1

Correcting the course

Like a drone adjusting to a gust of wind, a project manager responds to changing conditions rather than assuming the original plan will hold. Where there is too little work for a full-time project manager, the role may also include business analysis. section 9.1.1

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