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Monthly Archives: August 2006
Reviewing Resumes for an Agile Team: Look for Practices
Once you’ve seen some evidence of a lifecycle, look for the practices the candidate has used on projects. To be honest, I can imagine seeing one or two of these on a resume; certainly not all. Test-driven development (likely to … Continue reading
Reviewing Resumes for an Agile Team: Start with Lifecycles
I spoke with a recruiter yesterday about how to hire people for an agile team. Her client had suggested she look for people with XP experience, and that candidates have “stand-up meetings” on their resume. Oh no. Looking for agile … Continue reading
Behavior-Description Questions from Agile 2006
A few weeks ago at the “Hiring for an Agile Team” session, the group generated a number of behavior-description questions. I promised I would post them, so here they are: “Tell me about a time you made a mistake.” … Continue reading
Why I Look for Problem-Solving in a Work Context
I received some great comments on Why Puzzles and Riddles Discriminate. Adam has a terrific list of the things he’s looking for when he uses “puzzles and/or brainteasers and/or random programs to test”: Do they give up right off the … Continue reading
Join Me for An Audio Conference Aug. 10, 2006
I’m very pleased to be speaking at another Kennedy Audio Conference. See information at Building a Hiring Strategy.You’ve noticed that I’ve been blogging about some of the hiring strategies. Well, there are 12 strategies that I’ve noticed, and I won’t … Continue reading
Using Feedblitz for Email Subscribers
I’ve been using Bloglet for email subscribers. Today, I decided it was time to move on to Feedblitz. If you subscribe via email, you should received this posting (and all other future postings).
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Why Puzzles and Riddles Discriminate
At last week’s Agile 2006 conference, I led a tutorial called “Hiring for an Agile Team.” I made a statement that some of the participants challenged: Using puzzles and riddles discriminate against anyone who isn’t a (middle-upper class) white American … Continue reading
Creating an Audition for Test-Driven Development
Last week at the Agile conference, a participant in my “Hiring for an Agile Team” session asked how to know if the people she was interviewing–who had no experience as part of an agile team–might actually work in the team. … Continue reading
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