The Job Hackers

I highly recommend the Agile MBA to people new to Agile and Scrum, as well as seasoned professionals. Larry Apke and his team lead an inspiring 6 week class that covers the principles of Agile software development, Scrum, Test Driven Development (TDD),... Read More Behavior Driven Development (BDD), calculating technical debt, product development flow and more. The team uses many real life examples to help illustrate concepts. Also included are important lessons about leading, coaching, and mentoring knowledge workers and teams. There is a weekly study group and meet-ups where students can review and practice what they have learned.

I really enjoyed this agile MBA class and learnt a lot from it. It teaches you the ins and outs of agile so that you can effectively lead your organization. Larry Apke who is the founder and also instructor is very engaging with his method of teaching... Read More which also involves real life experiences. I highly recommend this class to anyone involved in defining, developing products.

Pros. Excellent presenters, slide decks, and recommended book readings in the syllabus. The main presenter, Larry Apke, is a gifted speaker and teacher. Jim Schibler does a great job of the separate group discussions which are optional but I recommend... Read More them for the case studies. The course is free (but they do ask for either donations or volunteer time). All sessions are recorded and can be downloaded. Likewise, the slide decks are available to download. Cons. If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area, to attend live the course meets at 7:30 in the morning. Yikes!

Very well organized, MBA level class on Scrum specifically and Agile in general. Great content and instruction. Excellent combination of twice a week class instruction and once a week engaging group work on real life examples, gives complete picture of... Read More agile and it's application in work environments.

Larry does an excellent job explaining the Agile Manifesto not just as a methodology from the Scrum guide. He goes much deeper on how to be a better person, an employee and as a leader to produce "value" for the organization!!! Here are some of the class... Read More highlights to-date (as of week #5): · Agile Manifesto and the three “P”s: Philosophy, Process and Practices · Modified Fibonacci sequence (1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 20, 40, 100) to sequence the user stories by value and by effort · Maximizing the 2 week Scrum calendar without over-taxing the developers · Roles and responsibilities of the Product Owner, Developers and Scrum Master · W. Edwards Deming’s view about the importance of Quality. · Behavior Drive Development (BDD) and Test Driven Development (TDD) · What is Technical Debt? · Using “System Thinking” as a framework to better understand the end-to-end processes · The Theory of Constraints and its Implications · Scaling the Product Backlog by tasks, stories, features and themes

Besides covering agile fundamentals, you also learn the "why" behind the fundamentals, as well as many advanced agile techniques from an experienced agile coach, Larry Apke. I enjoy Larry’s presentations! The material is well organized, and you have the... Read More opportunity to hear an abundance of Larry's thought processes and coaching experiences throughout his conversational delivery. I have attended the Agile MBA boot camp three times, and attended many of The Job Hackers sponsored events, in order to further my agile expertise! Benefits • Learn agile, or extend your agile knowledge, in a free, 6 week, agile boot camp. • Optional Friday discussion group sessions are available, which presented materials, certification test questions and case studies are reviewed. • The Job Hackers Agile MBA certificates are issued if you attend at least 50% of the live sessions. • Access to all session recordings and slides are available within 24 hours after each live session. • Access to The Job Hackers Slack community: discussions, events, job search resources, ... • Discount code for Scrum.org’s Professional Scrum Master (PSM) and/or Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) certification tests. • “Once a Job Hacker, always a Job Hacker!” ... you can re-take the Agile MBA boot camp, attend The Job Hackers sponsored events and stay active in The Job Hackers Slack community.

Agile MBA program with Larry's leadership has been insightful, fun and valuable! /⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I appreciate the opportunity to learn and collaborate with a wonderful diverse team/🧠 Looking forward to recommending my friends and colleagues for this well... Read More rounded program! /🎯 /Sarjun

After taking on a product owner role at a previous employer, without much orientation, I was looking to formalize my agile experience through a scrummaster certification. The Job Hackers provided a free, first-class learning experience that prepared me... Read More for the PSM I, exceeded my expectations and introduced me to a tremendously helpful community of motivated professionals. While the core curriculum would benefit from the addition of some more interactive facilitation techniques (Larry's methods consist of almost entirely of presentation followed by Q&A), the content is expansive and practical. I do strongly recommend that anyone participating in TJH sign up for the optional in-person meetups/activities or some other supplemental opportunity to actually practice SCRUM ceremonies as that will ground the course in lived experience that more closely resembles the work environment. Thanks to The Job Hackers course, I was able to identify places where my previous teams had, in retrospect, modified SCRUM roles or colored outside the lines, and then to reflect on why. That let me bring way more insight and a day-1 framework to a new product manager position. If you're looking for a first-class professional skills upgrade during a period of unemployment or under-employment, or a are looking to make a switch in roles, The Job Hackers will save you $2000 and teach you a ton. Just be prepared for some early mornings and an extensive reading list. This is the type of workforce development nonprofit that the world needs way more of.

This class is a great introduction to Agile and Scrum framework. It goes deeper into product development flow and queuing analysis, systems thinking, and biases. Larry does a great job of introducing the concepts, keeping the examples interesting, and... Read More keeping the tangents funny. Highly recommend this class for anyone who is curious about Agile philosophy and the Scrum framework within software development and/or other applications. Larry and his team of volunteers do an outstanding job!