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Agile Hiring: a Joint Venture between the Talent Acquisition and Product Development Teams
The demand for IT professionals is far higher than the offer. Nowadays the challenge is not just to attract and acquire, but to retain the best professionals in the sector. Let's enable dev team members to acquire and secure the best candidates for their teams and the company, collaborate with talent acquisition, and respect candidates as professionals and maintain open communication with them.
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Building an Effective and Enjoyable Remote Onboarding Experience
The onboarding experience will make up the new hire’s first impression of your team and company, so it’s really the ideal place to set standards, and therefore requires thoughtful planning, patience, and compassion. In this article, I will dive into some of my own learnings as I onboarded new team members remotely as well as my own wonderful experience joining a new organisation in 2021!
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The Renaissance of Code Documentation: Introducing Code Walkthrough
The Continuous Documentation methodology is a useful paradigm that helps ensure that high-quality documentation is created, maintained, and readily available. Code Walkthroughs take the reader on a “walk” — visiting at least two stations in the code — describe flows and interactions, and often incorporate code snippets.
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Q&A on the Book Managing the Unmanageable
The book Managing the Unmanageable by Mickey W. Mantle and Ron Lichty provides rules, tools, and insights to manage programmers and teams. It explores how to hire and develop programmers, onboard new hires quickly and successfully, and build and nurture highly effective and productive teams.
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Three Things to NOT Do with Your Software Development Projects
Experience has shown that a software project that is rushed into development is likely doomed to fail. Estimation and up-front planning are the keys to delivering desired quality without running over schedule or breaking budgets.
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Focus on Culture When Building an Engineering Culture
Sujith Nair explores why the clichéd “Engineering Culture” and related jargon need serious action beyond just boardroom discussion. Building an awesome Engineering Culture today needs more focus than ever. While there are no ready-made frameworks for building great engineering culture, there is a lot to be learnt from successful organizations.
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Culture May Eat Agile for Breakfast
Making culture your priority during the scaling phase of your organization is a sound business decision. You have to invest by hiring for mindset and educating everyone joining the organization in agile principles to prevent turning an existing agile culture into a traditional one.