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This group is primarily for the alumni, participants, partners and supporters of The Job Hackers. The group will meet regularly to discuss Agile topics and help place the participants of The Job Hackers in meaningful employment. This group actively supports the mission of The Job Hackers which is to provide individuals with the knowledge and experience needed to navigate the complex world of knowledge work. We do this by not only giving our participants valuable knowledge about software development to prepare them for real-world jobs, but working with them and employers to ensure the proper placement of the participants. We believe in the power of proper education to imbue its participants with skills the market is happy to pay for. It is because of this the education given to people in transition is without cost. The Job Hackers model is to not receive compensation for their valuable training until our participants are placed in a job matching their training.
If you support our mission you are welcome to join us!
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The T Word - Technical fluency for modern Scrum professionals
One of the most common pieces of advice Scrum Masters hear is:
"You don’t need to be technical."
While that advice may have made sense previously, in today's landscape it can be at best limiting and at worst actively harmful to modern Scrum and Agile Delivery professionals. Modern engineering teams now operate in complex environments involving cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, data platforms, distributed systems, and increasingly AI-driven tooling.
So what happens when the person responsible for supporting delivery and improving team effectiveness doesn’t understand the technical systems the team is working with?
In this talk, Dave Westgarth explores the growing technical literacy gap facing many Scrum Masters and delivery professionals. Drawing on real-world experience working with engineering teams, he’ll explain why technical understanding is becoming increasingly important for anyone working in delivery roles.
This session will cover:
- Why the idea that Scrum Masters “don’t need to be technical” became so common
- How modern software delivery environments have changed
- The challenges Scrum Masters face when they lack technical context
- What technical literacy actually means (and why it doesn’t mean learning to code)
- Practical areas Scrum Masters can explore to better understand the systems their teams build
Rather than turning Scrum Masters into engineers, this talk argues for something different: systems awareness and technical literacy as a key capability for modern delivery professionals.
Whether you are new to Agile or have years of experience working with Scrum teams, this session will challenge some common assumptions about the role and explore how it may need to evolve in the years ahead.
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The T Word - Technical fluency for modern Scrum professionals
·OnlineOnlineOne of the most common pieces of advice Scrum Masters hear is:
"You don’t need to be technical."While that advice may have made sense previously, in today's landscape it can be at best limiting and at worst actively harmful to modern Scrum and Agile Delivery professionals. Modern engineering teams now operate in complex environments involving cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, data platforms, distributed systems, and increasingly AI-driven tooling.
So what happens when the person responsible for supporting delivery and improving team effectiveness doesn’t understand the technical systems the team is working with?
In this talk, Dave Westgarth explores the growing technical literacy gap facing many Scrum Masters and delivery professionals. Drawing on real-world experience working with engineering teams, he’ll explain why technical understanding is becoming increasingly important for anyone working in delivery roles.
This session will cover:
- Why the idea that Scrum Masters “don’t need to be technical” became so common
- How modern software delivery environments have changed
- The challenges Scrum Masters face when they lack technical context
- What technical literacy actually means (and why it doesn’t mean learning to code)
- Practical areas Scrum Masters can explore to better understand the systems their teams build
Rather than turning Scrum Masters into engineers, this talk argues for something different: systems awareness and technical literacy as a key capability for modern delivery professionals.
Whether you are new to Agile or have years of experience working with Scrum teams, this session will challenge some common assumptions about the role and explore how it may need to evolve in the years ahead.54 attendees
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