TPM charter + one-owner-per-release accountability mandate (problem/solution/owner grid)

Situation

In the TPM sync with Chris Baek, Peter locked an accountability framework: TPMs solve problems and coordinate but do not own engineering processes (engineering owns its own processes and its coordination with Product); every new process must be defined on a 3-column grid of Problem, Solution, and a single named Owner; and every release gets one clear accountable owner (one throat to choke) empowered to make the go/no-go call. The incomplete NGD board is the named blocker, with engineering managers (Nathan, Justin) accountable for completing it so it feeds dates and confidence into the Value Drivers Board bottom swim lane.

Reasoning

The 9.8 and 10.2 release delays were ownership-vacuum failures, not effort failures, so the fix is naming an owner rather than adding process. This is the same instinct as Jira-confidence-as-contract and VDB-source-of-truth: make accountability legible and singular. Defining TPMs as problem-solvers who do not own processes prevents engineering from offloading delivery accountability. The problem/solution/owner grid forces every process to justify itself against a business problem, guarding against process for its own sake. It builds the accountability scaffold under the speed-over-perfect doctrine.

Observed Evidence

TPMs solve problems; processes are merely tools. If a process fails to solve its problem it must be changed or eliminated. The 9.8 release slipped Thursday to Monday because a known issue lacked a clear owner to make the go/no-go call. Mandate: every release has a single accountable owner; all new processes defined via Problem/Solution/Owner.

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