The Job Hackers

Do you ever feel like a colorful parrot in a gilded cage? This course is a complete education on Scrum and then goes deeper to explain the underlying principles of why the Scrum guidelines work and how to effectively improve your scrum teams. Highly recommend.... Read More

I found the Agile MBA course under Larry Apke's leadership is simply excellent for several reasons. First, the breadth of the content provides a firm baseline of Agile mechanics and its application in the real project management world. I found that it... Read More effectively "rounded out" my formal Agile training. Secondly, the emphasis on the "human dimension" was especially useful especially from a holistic business systems perspective. Third, the very inclusive and positive leadership style that Larry used helped make the discussions very personal and engaging where participants clearly felt safe to actively participate. And of course, Larry's deft sense of humor demonstrated how confidence and passion for a subject can be quite infectious.

At first I thought the series of classes solely focused on becoming a Scrum Master. While Larry does set you up for success in learning about and understanding the official scrum guide to prepare you to take that test, his class goes well beyond that... Read More small task. If you are prepared to read 50 pages per day, I guarantee you will get much more out of his class and have a better understanding as he reiterates materials with added introspection. The book recommendations, although dated, actually give a very clear vision to the lack of changes that have occurred in business within the last 40 years. Larry and the books he references do a great job of aligning you on how to understand and work with legacy systems, seasoned leaders, and those who are trying to use Agile in today's businesses. The optional Friday breakout sessions were a great way to hear people's real-life experiences as well take a deeper dive with class discussions. I know I still have a lot to learn but I was floored by the amount of pure valuable information that was disseminated within a six-week timeframe by also being an active participant in these sessions. There is even an active slack channel to keep discussion open outside of class. The class helped me gain a deep understanding to how others work. It went beyond business practices and Agile frameworks to include cognitive bias, behaviors, leadership, systems thinking and the importance and success of productive office environments. We even had resume review sessions to hone in on our newly acquired skillsets and happy hours for those who just needed a breather.

This is such an amazing experience! Larry is really passionate about the agile and has an extensive experience in the software field and that made the class very engaging. His anecdotes and stories made the class very lively. Edward was great in moderating... Read More the chat and making sure all the questions are answered.

Larry Apke's The Job Hackers Agile MBA bootcamp is not just process knowledge but also a multi-disciplinary approach for implementation of Agile and, backed up with his real life experience. Larry is exceedingly engaging, approachable, funny, and passionate... Read More about this topic, and it comes through. His breath of knowledge is impressive, backed by extensive, diverse research. The slides, graphics, TEDTalks, YouTube videos, and books kept me committed and riveted. Don't worry if you're not in software development, I am in biotech and the content is transferable, relatable. The group was very engaged in the Chat exchanging ideas, suggesting additional resources, ideas, opinions, and the wonderful moderators, Ed and Jim, were funny and attentive monitoring/answering Q&A real time. I also signed up for the additional, helpful, Friday work group for small group discussion, networking, and test questions practice. Larry generously shares all of this for free as a non-profit. He's created not only a curriculum but also a Community. The Job Hackers Slack group includes advice on test prep, resume review, job leads, opportunities to pay-it-forward, reading list suggestions and so much more. Highly recommended!

Agile MBA sessions are one of the best sessions I have attended. At first I wasn't very sure if this is for me and didn't do recommended readings and while taking the classes I got interested in understanding in depth and of course all because of Larry... Read More teaching and how he explains each important topic and relate it to Agile . Very interesting class. Its a very good community of seasoned professionals . Not to miss great questions in the class to clarify the concepts
Once a Job Hacker is always a Job Hacker ,

Thanks Larry and Edward for putting this together.

What I liked about this class are the community and reading materials. Larry also has a lot of experience working on teams and what that looks like. He promotes the growth mindset in acknowledging that being a SCRUM leader requires the ability to listen... Read More to your team and advocate them. He really highlights the servant leader concept.

Job Hackers puts on a very informative Agile MBA bootcamp to provide a holistic, unvarnished view of Agile. Larry covers the pros and cons and how to be successful when utilizing Agile/Scrum methodologies. Classes have good energy and leave plenty of... Read More time for conversation and collaboration. Highly recommend.

I enjoyed Larry Apke's passion and knowledge of all the topics he discussed. While his bread and butter is the Agile and Scrum framework, he is equally effective on teaching topics to include psychology, workplace efficiencies, systems, collaboration,... Read More leadership, etc.

If you seek the opportunity to develop yourself within the Agile / Scrum framework, as a project manager, a leader, a team member, or develop as a human being, I highly recommend the Agile MBA with the Job Hackers!

I feel privileged to have found this bootcamp. What a great and interesting program for learning about Agile. The content is presented in such a way that it is accessible and relatable, and it rejuvenated interest in my career. Up to this point, I thought... Read More software development was dry and boring. AgileMBA taught me that it is in fact much more of a human profession than most people realize.