TPM University Monthly Newsletter March 2025 Edition
Defrosting a bit as we enter March, the industry is still quite dynamic unfortunately. I am sending out positive vibes to my fellow TPMs around the world, giving you the strength to be resilient. For those of you still searching for new opportunities, continue to learn and open your minds to new things. In that spirit, I have some links to post as well as my month’s article on PowerBI.
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📰 News & Articles of Interest
- OpenTelemetry Metrics Explained: A Guide for Engineers
- PMBOK: The Project Management Body of Knowledge Explained
- Mastering Data Consistency Across Microservices
- Stakeholder Engagement in Project Management
- Explore GitHub Codespaces 🚀: Your Development Environment in the Cloud 🤩☁️👌
- Introduction to Kubernetes 🐳: Key Concepts
- Mind mapping in project management using Wrike and Klaxoon
Article: Getting Started with PowerBI for TPMs
My current role has called out for me to dive deep into Microsoft’s PowerBI tools. As a TPM, data is the lifeblood of decision-making, but somehow I have made it so far without really getting into creating dashboards with PowerBI. I have used other similar tools, but in my current career trajectory in the SRE space, enter Microsoft’s answer to interactive data visualizations to help us make sense of how my organization’s systems are operating.
But before you tune-out, this isn’t specifically just for SRE-focused areas, but operational excellence, something that is of up-most importance to all engineering teams. Incident metrics, availability SLAs, latency trends, rather than dumpster-diving into the infinity of logs and Grafana dashboards, you want to make best use of your time as a TPM.
As the conduit between engineers, leadership and other stakeholders, you need to be able to have real-time insights at-hand to answer questions such as are we meeting our availability and latency targets?, or how often are deployments causing outages?, or Are engineers drawing in on-call pages?
Power BI is here to help you track, trend, and troubleshoot without pulling raw data every time someone asks, “How’s reliability looking?”
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