😎How Tech Fleet Project Applications Work

This page describes how Tech Fleet project team training applications work.

The Video Version

Credit: Tech Fleet

Basics

Tech Fleet has a long standing history of community-driven changes in its own process. From 2020 to 2025, we had a process where people fill out a single Google Forms survey every time they apply. Whenever they applied to multiple projects, they'd need to answer the same questions redundantly. This wasted a lot of time for members who were trying to get into teams.

  As of February 2025, Tech Fleet has enacted a new set of applications that helps project coordinators and community members alike. These will save people time and ensure that project teams review useful information before picking team mates for project training.

Tech Fleet members now fill out two applications: the General Application they fill out once, and the Project Phase Application they fill out any time they want to join a training team. The information from the General Application is pulled into the Project Phase Application, saving members time and energy. They no longer have to answer every single question every single time.

The General Application

Find it here:

ℹ️Application Forms

The General Application is designed to capture important information about yourself and your training desires only once. Members can fill it out once and update their answers over time. This saves time when people are applying to projects since they don't need to answer a lot of the questions again and again (as they did before).

The General Application has questions about:

1. Your time zone and availability

2. Your education outside of Tech Fleet

3. Your prior engagement and training within Tech Fleet

4. Your desired skill sets to focus on

5. Your Servant Leadership mindset

6. Your Agile mindset

❔Tech Fleet General Application Questions

The Project Phase Application

ℹ️Application Forms

You fill out the Project Phase Application every time you apply to a project training phases in Tech Fleet. The information from the General Application is pulled into the Project Phase Application, saving members time and energy. They no longer have to answer every single question every single time.

The Project Phase application has questions about:

1. Have you completed your Tech Fleet General Application?

2. Information about your desired project position

3. Questions related to projects

❔Tech Fleet Project Phase Application Questions

The Process for Projects

Tech Fleet continually iterates on its project management lifecycle to improve the success for all who are involved.

As of this moment, the process for projects is broken into chunks:

1. 4 weeks applications and team building

2. 2 weeks of pre-kickoff work with the team

3. 8 weeks of project work during the phase

4. 1 week of hand-off work after the phase

Learn more about the process for project timelines and the steps our community takes to launch project phases here:

🤠Project Timelines and Application Process

How the Applications are Used

The Project Coordinator Guild and the co-leads who are picked on teams review these answers when you apply to projects before picking team mates.

We know what you're thinking: "I'm not good enough to answer these questions". Have no fear! This is not true. We take people of all background and skill levels on Tech Fleet projects. After all, that's why Tech Fleet is here: to help you grow for a great tech career!

We do not use this data to disqualify anyone, but we do use it to see where you are in your journey to the tech field and in the Tech Fleet community.

Tech Fleet's Privacy Policy for Application Information

Tech Fleet is committed to keeping our community members and their data secure and private online. We do not share any of your application data with third parties. We use this application data for project training only. We have policies that describe how we use and store the data we collect about our members. When you join Tech Fleet Discord, you fill out a form that requires you to read and agree to these policies. Click here to read the policies.

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