The Value of Full-Stack JavaScript

Are you optimizing for the right things when selecting your next project’s tech stack? Struggling with accountability and empowerment your agile squad? Skilled in JavaScript but envy developers who program in a “real” language? Your organization may be more bound by the “latency” of change management and collaboration than the latency of your application tech stack. Hear from McKinsey & Company about the value of full-stack JavaScript in your organization, and get inspired about the superpower of full-stack feature developers in insanely productive agile product teams.

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Jake McGuire

Leads @McKinsey & Company's NeXT Commerce Tech Inniative

Jake leads McKinsey & Company's NeXT Commerce Tech initiative, helping accelerate the firm's eCommerce technology delivery with clients via a set of best-practice open source tools. He comes from a background in Bay Area startup life as a developer and architect, and has experience leading dozens of cross-functional teams to deliver software. 

Jake supports clients globally on eCommerce technology, current and target state architecture, and navigating the alphabet soup of MarTech stack acronyms.

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Tuesday Nov 19 / 03:55PM PST ( 50 minutes )

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