Behind Closed Doors is available for preorder. The book is at the printer, and we expect hardcopies to start shipping late September. In the meantime, if you can’t wait (and I hope you can’t :-), you can buy the combo-pack of the PDF (now) and the book (later in September).
I’ve received at least a half-dozen requests for help finding people in the last week. So it’s certainly time to think about ways to find candidates. (I have a whole chapter on sourcing strategy and examples in Hiring the Best Knowledge Workers, Techies & Nerds). In the meantime, if you just want to consider technical
If you haven’t read the classic Places to Intervene in a System, take a little time and do so. My colleague Don Gray has written an afterword that relates the article to software product development. I’m realizing that the way I do assessments uses these interventions. I have to think more about how to write
My ISP is not allowing emails to my domain name address (again!), so I will be changing ISPs this week. And, I’m chauffering Daughter#1 to colleges, so don’t expect anything from me this week.
When I teach interviewing, many people want to know how to shorten their interviews. They think they spend too much time interviewing candidates. When I probe a little more, here’s what I find. Many people spend 30 minutes or less in the interview. They try to “sell” the organization in the interview. They ask only
If you’d like to hear some of what’s in Behind Closed Doors, Andy has recorded an mp3 of one of our sidebars, “The Fable of the Rising Young Manager.” BTW, I thought it was thrilling the first time I saw my name in print as an author. Now that I hear our words, it’s just
I’m so pleased to announce that Hiring the Best Knowledge Workers, Techies & Nerds: The Secrets and Science of Hiring Technical People is available in Japanese. Shoeisha is the publisher.See the picture of the book in margin.
I’m in the middle of a new activity for me: visiting colleges with Daughter#1. (She’s a senior in high school, trying to decide where she wants to attend school next year.) When I was thinking about college (university to those of you across the pond), my father told me I could go up to
Not every product has smoke tests (a series of tests you can run after each build to make sure the product works well enough to continue development and testing). Smoke tests provide early feedback to developers about their work. So, for the last several years, I’ve been suggesting to my clients that as they
Let me pose a situation facing one of my clients now. Their business is expanding, and they’ve agreed to develop a product that’s tangential to their current product line. This new product requires a new piece. If you’re a software company, imagine it’s a piece of hardware. If you’re a hardware company, imagine it’s software.