Six Tips for Interviewing Scrum Masters, Part 2
Now that you know what you expect from your Scrum Master's job (the deliverables), and you know the essential and desirable skills (the first three tips), you can focus on creating the interview...
View ArticleFive Tips to Hiring a Generalizing Specialist
We talk a lot in agile about generalizing specialists. Scott Ambler has a terrific essay on what a generalizing specialist is: Has one or more technical specialties… Has at least a general knowledge of...
View ArticleMy Agile 2015 Roundup
Agile 2015 was the week of Aug 3-7 this year. It was a great week. Here are the links to my interviews and talks. Interview with Dave Prior. We spoke about agile programs, continuous planning, and how...
View ArticleSkills Gap? No, Wage Gap
I keep hearing about the “Skills gap.” There is no skills gap. There is a gap between what employers want to pay and what people are willing to work for. I read an article this morning that prompted...
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Creating Agile HR, Part 2: A Flow for Agile Hiring
This is part of an Agile HR series. The previous post is Creating Agile HR, Part 1: What HR Does This post is about creating a flow for agile hiring. Why flow? Very few people hire continuously. That...
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Creating Agile HR, Part 3: Possible Agile Hiring Metrics
One of the problems with agile hiring is this: what data do you collect? Let me digress for a bit and talk about cycle time and lead time. This image explains cycle time and lead time for a...
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Creating Agile HR, Part 4: Agile Sourcing
Sourcing, how and where you recruit possible candidates is a great way to use small, safe-to-fail experiments. That's because the recruiting landscape continues to change. A little history: in the...
View ArticleCreating Agile HR, Part 8: Summary
Let me circle back around to what HR does, as in Part 1: Administration and Benefits Compensation and rewards Education and training Recruitment Hiring Of these, it makes sense to change the...
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Checklists for Hiring Remote People
As we move to more remote work, especially in these pandemic times, how do we integrate people so they can succeed? See Hiring Geeks That Fit for all the new employee checklists and how to use them....
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Define Your Onboarding plan for New Hires to Create Personal and Team Success
Tim, a first-level manager, asked me, “Is it reasonable for someone to quit after just a week? With no notice?” “No. What happened?” “Sam, a new developer, started on Monday. He told me today, Friday,...
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