Six Behaviors to Consider for an Agile Team on Stickyminds.com
I have a column up on Stickyminds, Six Behaviors to Consider for an Agile Team. Please do leave comments there.
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Is HR in Your Middle?
I hear this story again and again. A hiring manager can’t find the right candidate. Why? You would think it would be easier to find great candidates, because so many people are out of work or are looking for better jobs. But that’s exactly why it’s so hard for hiring managers to find people–there are
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Waiting for the “Perfect” Candidate
I received a call from a recruiter-colleague yesterday, bemoaning a hiring manager who was waiting for the “perfect” candidate. “I’ve sent her 5 great candidates, but none of them are perfect. Doesn’t she have to fill this position?” Well, maybe not right away. And, maybe it’s not just technical skills that make a candidate a
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Updated Blog Look
I have updated this blog to a more contemporary look and feel. Please comment if you read it as a web page instead of an RSS feed.
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“Raise the Bar” or “Increase Team Capability”?
I recently had a conversation with a gentleman at a conference, where he said they hired “to raise the bar”. I asked him what he meant by that. He started discussing the mean of the capability in the team. Well, if you’ve hired for zero diversity, you might be able to discuss the team’s mean.
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Hiring for Diversity, pt3: New College Grads
It’s tempting to look for candidates with lots of experience for your open positions. But at this time of year, and through the fall, consider looking for new college grads. Not just because I have a daughter who just graduated, but because new grads offer you an opportunity to steer people without a lot of
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Hiring for Diversity, #2: Personality and Experience Diversity
I recently led a workshop on Hiring for an Agile Team. We discussed diversity and I explained my position: the more complex the problem, the more personality and experience diversity you want on your team. That’s because different approaches to solving problems and backgrounds help the team see what their options are. I once worked
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Hiring for Diversity, #1: Women and Other Traditional Diversity issues
There’s a push in the agile community to recognize women and see if we can’t get more women on agile teams. Whatever you think about the program, the goal is a laudable one. Hiring women creates a diversity that is difficult to match with an all-male team. Women tend to bring more collaborative skills and
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What Can You Ask For, in a Job Interview
A few of you had reasonable concerns about asking for code snippets in What Your Job Ad Can Do For You. So what can you ask for? Here are some ideas: Pseudo-code that shows how you solved a problem as a developer Description of an automated test framework or pseudo-code that shows the interviewer how
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What Your Job Ad Can Do For You
I’m teaching PSL this week with Esther and Jerry. I met one of the participants for the first time yesterday morning, and he thanked me for writing the Hiring the Best Knowledge Workers book. I thanked him, and asked what he liked the best. He said that the advice about thinking about the attractors for