by Richard | Mar 30, 2017 | Software Career
When recruiting for developers, I start with initial screening by CV and perhaps phone interview, followed by a technical test, and then a face-to-face interview. I often find that people are nervous about interviews, but there’s really no need. By this stage,...
by Richard | Mar 29, 2017 | Software Career
After an initial screening, based on CV and perhaps a phone interview, I think it’s essential when hiring a developer to include some kind of realistic test of problem solving and programming abilities as part of the recruitment process. This is the point at...
by Richard | Mar 28, 2017 | Software Career
This is the 2nd part of a little series, talking about developer recruitment. The first part can be found here. Writing a CV as a software developer is a tricky balance; there’s a lot of information to get on there, but most of it isn’t very… interesting....
by Richard | Mar 27, 2017 | Planning & Estimating
Strip away the marketing and at its heart being agile is about continuous change. The product offering is continually improved by incrementally adding valuable features; and the team continually improve by collecting and acting on feedback about how they are working...
by Richard | Mar 27, 2017 | Software Career
For a while now I’ve been leading software teams, and part of that is recruiting developers when there are vacancies within the team. Talking to other developers, especially juniors, it seems like there’s still a fair amount of mystery about what is...
