TPM University June 2025 Newsletter

Summer is around the corner, even for us folks up in the Pacific Northwest, we are starting to get some sun rays. GenAI continues to dominate the news as well as layoffs from Microsoft and others. Hopefully things will start to settle down. This month we have a fresh batch of articles from TPMU and around the industry. Enjoy…

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📰 News & Articles of Interest

• 5 Kaizen Principles That Underpin the Methodology
• Agent Mode 101: All About GitHub Copilot’s Powerful Mode
• Reimagining Every Phase of the Developer Lifecycle
• Improving Platform Resilience at Cash App
• Why CI/CD Alone Won’t Cut It for Infrastructure as Code
• Workflow Process Mapping: A Guide
• AI Project Management Conferences You Need to Know
• What Are GANs, CNNs, SVMs, and RNNs?
• The Kaizen Method: Small Steps, Big Impact
• 4 ChatGPT Prompts to Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile and Stand Out

What are GANs, CNNs, SVMs & RNNs? Effectively

Walk into any AI conference, and you’ll hear conversations that sound like a game of Scrabble gone off the rails:

“We trained a CNN to preprocess for our GAN while benchmarking against an RNN. The SVM results weren’t bad either.”

To the uninitiated, it sounds like engineers are just flexing their ability to speak in acronyms. But behind those cryptic four-letter combos lie some of the most important tools in the machine learning toolkit.

So, let’s break down the Big Four:

• GAN: Generative Adversarial Network
• CNN: Convolutional Neural Network
• SVM: Support Vector Machine
• RNN: Recurrent Neural Network

This guide will not only explain what they are, but why they matter, where they’re used, and why they’re sometimes misunderstood, even by mere mortal TPMs such as ourselves, starting with GAN.

See the full article at: https://tpmuniversity.com/what-gans-cnns-svms-rnns/

🎙️TPM Ridge Podcast is back

Make sure you are subscribing, because TPM Ridge is back for Season 2, and in a new format. We are excited to announce our panel will include Josh Teter, Michael Gotz, James Daydruff, and myself talk about what’s happening around our industry.

You can subscribe to the podcast from now to make sure you don’t miss the new season. Follow on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

… and something from the funny paper

Thanks to Comic Agile