Track: Professional Skills

Career development and organizational dynamics. The skills that determine career trajectory as much as technical ability.

Goals

• Articulate technical work in business-relevant terms
• Understand organizational power dynamics, vendor management, and change management

Prerequisites

• None (this track is domain-independent)
• Recommended: some professional experience to contextualize the material

Learning Path

Module 1: Career Engineering

Step	Activity	Resource
1	Read primer	topics/career-engineering/primer.md
2	Study real-world patterns	topics/career-engineering/street_ops.md
3	Learn the footguns	topics/career-engineering/footguns.md

Module 2: Organizational Dynamics

Step	Activity	Resource
1	Read power primer	topics/power/primer.md
2	Read vendor management primer	topics/vendor-management/primer.md
3	Read change management primer	topics/change-management/primer.md

Suggested Pace

• Intensive: 1 module per week (2 weeks total)
• Steady: 1 module per 2 weeks (4 weeks total)