TPM self-check

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  • Six durable skills, one shape. You answer for the six, and the shape of your hexagon names the archetype you are closest to.
  • It leads with your strengths. It is not pass/fail, and it never compares you to anyone else. A working draft, grounded in research and not yet validated.
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  1. I adapt how I explain things to whoever I am talking to, from an executive to an engineer.
  2. When something breaks right now, I stabilize it fast with what is already in front of me.
  3. I can weigh a technical architecture tradeoff and decide, without needing someone to translate it for me.
  4. I regularly step back to check whether my approach is still working.
  5. I can hold where the product needs to be in a few years and work backward from it.
  6. When the standard path is blocked, I improvise a workaround that holds.
  7. I get a group to do its best work together, including through disagreement.
  8. People sometimes leave my updates unsure what I actually meant.
  9. In an emergency I reach for the perfect fix instead of the one that stops the damage now.
  10. I usually have to take an engineer’s word for a technical tradeoff rather than judge it myself.
  11. I will take the slower path now when it sets the product up better for the long run.
  12. I come up with approaches the rest of the team had not considered.
  13. I usually only see what I should have done differently in hindsight.
  14. I can tell when a call is mine to make and when it belongs to the group.
  15. People leave my updates knowing what is true and what to do next.
  16. In a crisis I can tell what has to be fixed now and what can wait.
  17. I understand enough about how our systems, APIs, and tools fit together to see the knock-on effects of a change.
  18. I mostly optimize for the next release and rarely plan past it.
  19. When the obvious approach fails, I stall rather than invent another way through.
  20. I push my own solution instead of drawing the best out of the team.
  21. When my approach stops working, I change it rather than push harder on it.
  22. I know my own strengths and blind spots as a delivery lead.

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